Re: developers developers developers

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:25:40PM +0100, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
>>    Good visual debugger for both scheme and C++, running well on Windows and
>>    Linux.
>
> That'll take... oh, 200 hours?  Sorry, but that would probably
> take all the lilypond programmers over a year to write.  I don't
> think that's a good trade-off.

A good hint about how to work interactively with top-repl takes quite
less time and already helps a lot.

>>    Easy build procedure using visual tools.
>
> Another 200 hours or more.  Again, I can't see that trade-off being
> worth it.

For me, "visual tools" are a setback, actually.

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David Kastrup