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Re: [patch] Fix setup.exe chooser page header column borkage.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:40:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun 29 10:26, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Remember that setup won the obfuscated c++ code contest in 2002. We're
>>>>> very proud of that.
>>>> I thought you had to submit code that was intentionally obfuscated. Code
>>>> that just got all crufty by itself doesn't normally qualify.
>>> Huh? I always thought that setup *is* intentionally obfuscated.
>>> Did I miss something?
>>
>> I think you're both right. There was intentional obfuscation in the
>> original design but it was improved upon by the handful of setup
>> developers (I among them) over time.
>
>[ Heh. Legacy code FTW. To me it looks like some of the code was
>developed in parallel with some of the developers learning the ins and
>outs of writing big C++ applications for the first time. That's only
>to be expected; there's a lot of stuff about a language that you just
>don't learn until you really use it in anger for a while. Anyway, it
>is what it is and it's not _that_ bad. ]
Actually, I don't think anyone who wrote this part of the code would
claim to have been learning c++.
However, now that I think of it, I believe that the problem you're
talking about was known when the ability to resize the dialog box was
added. I believe that I said something like "the functionality offered
outweighs the potential problem".
> Ok?
Looks ok to me. Thanks for tracking this down.
cgf