[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Issue with emphasis
- From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:30:40 +0100
On 11/20/2014 02:14 PM, Keith Creasy wrote:
Good point and I'm afraid it boils down to the time investment that would be
required to even comprehend the LibLouis code well enough to make significant
changes without breaking things. I know that's my hesitation. Doing the
programming to fix LibLouis probably isn't too difficult but the other factors;
learning the code, understanding and writing tests... make it a tedious, time
consuming and unpleasant prospect.
I don't want to get caught in a bike shedding argument but I think we
have to concede that we have in liblouis a) a lot of code which does
mostly what it is supposed to do and b) it is written in a language
which can be used from virtually anywhere (Python, Java, Lua, you name it).
Of course we could do it better in language X but the time you'd have to
invest is beyond a reasonable return on investment, especially if all
you get is better emphasis handling.
As for how hard it is to comprehend the liblouis code I can attest that
it is not super easy but even I who am hardly a genius C hacker managed
to sort of understand what was going on and even fix a bug here or there.
Given there are some really talented and dedicated people on this list I
think we should manage to improve the exiting code base.
Thanks
Christian
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