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Re: [patch] Fix setup.exe chooser page header column borkage.


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:40:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 29 10:26, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> Remember that setup won the obfuscated c++ code contest in 2002.  We're
>>> very proud of that.
>>
>> I thought you had to submit code that was intentionally obfuscated. Code
>> that just got all crufty by itself doesn't normally qualify.
>
>Huh?  I always thought that setup *is* intentionally obfuscated.
>Did I miss something?

I think you're both right.  There was intentional obfuscation in the
original design but it was improved upon by the handful of setup
developers (I among them) over time.

cgf


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