Tuesday, August 30, 2011
can you write a skin loader instead? And use the fact that css was created to solve this problem?
A few tweaks can become a nightmare to manage if your not familar with designing product lines.
On Aug 30, 2011 4:41 PM, "Fearless Fool" <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Good news everyone: a customer wants to license our Rails-based app!
> (Maybe we'll be able to afford something fancier than ramen noodle for
> dinner!!!) The bad news is that they want a custom logo, custom color
> scheme and "a few tweaks here and there".
>
> What are the established techniques for managing "a few tweaks here and
> there"?
>
> Creating branch in git seems like it will do almost everything
> necessary. The only complication I see is that we'll have to
> back-merge enhancements and bug fixes in the main branch, but that would
> be true for any approach.
>
> Simply stated: is there a compelling reason NOT to use git for creating
> multiple 'skins'?
>
> - ff
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-- > Good news everyone: a customer wants to license our Rails-based app!
> (Maybe we'll be able to afford something fancier than ramen noodle for
> dinner!!!) The bad news is that they want a custom logo, custom color
> scheme and "a few tweaks here and there".
>
> What are the established techniques for managing "a few tweaks here and
> there"?
>
> Creating branch in git seems like it will do almost everything
> necessary. The only complication I see is that we'll have to
> back-merge enhancements and bug fixes in the main branch, but that would
> be true for any approach.
>
> Simply stated: is there a compelling reason NOT to use git for creating
> multiple 'skins'?
>
> - ff
>
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