[haiku-development] Re: Practical questions from a new developer
- From: Wim van der Meer <wpjvandermeer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:38:02 +0900
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:45 AM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As the author of the original Deskcalc patch I'd like to make a few
> comments. First of all, I like your approach because you don't have to
> recalculate the result to convert to scientific notation. I hope that my
> patch was at least helpful in giving you guidance in creating your patch.
> Congratulations on getting your patch accepted. However, I still think that
> there are some really nice aspects to my patch that got overlooked. For
> instance my patch allows you to specify the number of significant digits
> that you want calculated instead of just using 32. Also, I made a few fixes
> that allow you to get more precise results for tranendental functions (like
> pi, sin(rad), etc) and I don't think those changes got put in to your patch.
> I'll apply your patch when I get a chance and see what other things got left
> behind. However, I would like to say, good job, I think your approach is
> overall much cleaner than mine.
>
> John Scipione
>
>
Thank you for your comments. Yes, I looked at your patch and that gave me a
good starting point. I also agree with you that your patch has some good
points, but I believe these did not really relate to the problem. It is hard
to calculate the number of characters that can fit in a certain width,
especially when proportional fonts are used, that is why I decided on my
approach.
It may be a good idea to create a new patch with the other improvements you
propose and submit it.
Regards,
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Wim van der Meer
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