Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 06 August 2006 10:30, Olivier Goffart wrote:
>
>> Le dimanche 6 août 2006 17:07, Michaël Larouche a écrit :
>>
>>> One thing for sure, it will save us maintainability in lorg term and will
>>> give us more power and flexibility.
>>>
>> For sure ?
>>
>> It seems more complex.
>> And more complex = harder to maintain.
>>
>
> actually, once you write a model it's pretty near zero maintenance for the
> model and you can switch view methods much, much easier since they data is
> not tied to the view at all.
>
> by keeping the data coupled to the view, you will never be able to experiment
> too wildly with views and uses of that data because the effort of doing so
> will be too high.
>
> this approach also introduces complexity in the form of having to manage both
> data and view in one place. the complexity of the MV approach is party a
> perception thing due to being new (meaning we have to learn things) and only
> partly due to actually being more complex.
>
>
>> What is this flexibility that we need ?
>>
>> Note that our storage data is already separated from it's representation in
>> the Kopete::ContactList
>>
>
> and the contactlist data structure ought to be able to feed directly into
> views.
>
> one of the use cases kopete will run into is being able to bridge the contact
> data to lists that appear on the desktop or in other applications. identity
> is moving more and more towards sharing and coordinating this data between
> multiple apps. having a model that is simultaneously what feeds the views and
> is what is coordinated with these external sources will almost certainly keep
> things simpler over the long haul.
>
> of course, this isn't my app .. i'm not designing it, writing it, etc. so ...
> yeah. i'm just an annoying bystander who very occasionally submits patches ;)
>
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