OT: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] cleanup language handling in configure

[Fabian Franz]

Am Sonntag, 1. August 2004 11:04 schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> Hi,
>
> > After fixing a language handling bug in configure today I kept staring
> > at the language section for a while.  It's much more complicated than
> > it needs to be.  Here is a first stab at simplifying things a bit, but
> > I'm sure it can be taken further.
>
> That happens to me too all the time I look at some MPlayer code ;-)

Then you should fix it ;-) or bug the maintainer to do so ...

But we should not forget that the messiest functions sometimes are the best 
tested as each bug lead to another workaround and such getting messy.

I think there is an excellent article about that on:

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

I found this via:

"The Joel Test - 12 Steps to better code"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

, which is also imho worth a read.

cu

Fabian