[dev] my IMP broke [ User Preferences Grouping ]

[Atif Ghaffar]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> 
> Do people want things to be this modular?

modular is good.


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Subject: Re: [dev] my IMP broke [ User Preferences Grouping ]

Quoting Atif Ghaffar <aghaffar@developer.ch>:

> modular is good.

All generalizations are bad.

Seriously, that's a blanket statement that doesn't carry the argument by 
itself. Yes, modularity is a good design goal. But there are always tradeoffs, 
and if no one plans on adding customized preferences to IMP, it might not be 
worth it.

-chuck

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