Re: mutt development and road map
On 2005-07-14 12:17:27 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> - The UI should be completely divorced from the funcntionality.
> What I mean is, if someone wanted to, they should be able to
> delete the modules pertaining to the UI, and re-write them from
> scratch without touching any other code in mutt. It should be
> possible to add on an alternative UI, without affecting the
> existing one (e.g. to make it easier for a braille user, or a
> screen reader, or to add a GUI, etc.), should someone want to do
and to write a new UI in another language...
> that. The only code which should be affected is the initial
> set-up code to decide which gui is used.
> I'd also really like to see someone fix the formatting of the
> code... I personally hate the GNU coding standards -- I think
> they're horrific -- but aside from that whenever I've looked at
> mutt's code, it always seems the indentation is inconsistent,
> sometimes using spaces, sometimes tabs, etc.
IMHO, tabs should never be used. In particular, they lead to problems
with copy-paste from various places (e.g. copy-pasting a patch from a
web page).
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