[Bf-funboard] Policy

[bf-funboard@blender.org]

a complete overhaul would be too hard, but 
I think the design concepts we develop here
 from feature suggestions will help to determine 
how code can be unified so that a switch to C++ 
will be be easier..  C++ is a superset of C so 
we could switch to C++ possibly at once, and 
then unify features as objects over time.. 
This is called a incremental refinement.. As 
its tough to do a complete rewrite.. There may be a series 
of dependent rewrites throughout blender, and the features 
suggested will imply the design needed, the design will define 
what the dependency relationship is between features, and 
that will determine the orders that features will 
have to be unified.. This can occur over time..
It will look like an overhaul but it will most likely 
occur over a set of calculated refinements to the source code. 

It could start out that if everything dependended on a unification 
of what a vertex was, we might make the first thing to nail 
"vertices" and that would make everything dependent on vertices 
easier to work with..  But its determining which features are 
the most essential and making them so they are one feature not 
multiple of features that are alike.  


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