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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Happy birthday Dick.

I am not aware of the reasons that are making you decide to leave. Maybe
you want to reduce your involvement in it instead of actually leaving the
project.

Either way, it is your call.

Cheers
Fabrizio



On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 08:54:19AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > >> Today is my 58th birthday, and it has become very clear to me
> recently that I am really
> > >> tired of looking at poorly written KiCad source code.  I am not long
> for this project.
>
> Late cheers :D
>
> On bad code I would to make a distinction:
> - Bad as in badly formatted, unreadable and so on (mostly subjective
>   issue)
> - Bad as in bad style or using widely deprecated constructs like
>   a = b = 0; that's objectively bad
> - Bad as in abusing data structures or constant sets (screams revenge)
>
> In reworking the track/via classes I found that a) it works just because
> S_CIRCLE (a STROKE_T, for shapes) has (by sheer coincidence, I think)
> the same value as VIA_THROUGH and b) the autoplacer/router substantially
> put a DRAWSEGMENT in a TRACK. Using the shape member (the via
> type) to keep the drawsegment shape...
>
> These things make me fond of REDEFINES in COBOL (more or less like the
> union in C...)
>
> I just hope that's because it really ancient code never touched
> before...
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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