On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:56:35PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > It's time. I've been doing some thinking about Xastir-NG. Several > > main things need be decided before coding can begin. This topic is > > one of them: > > > > > > What platforms would we _like_ to support? > > > > What platforms _can_ we support? > > Let's go another direction with this, [...] > > At the moment I'm interested solely in the Xastir Daemon end of > things. The GUI clients can be written in entirely different > languages: In fact we can write one reference implementation of > each, then others can duplicate the clients in other languages if > they wish. > > Developers: Let's hear from you! Am I on the right track?
I don't think this is the right track, actually. I think the right track does not start with questions like "which database back-end should we standardize on?" The right approach would develop an appropriate OO interface to a database package, against which all the actors that use the database are written --- and we can implement as many variants of the database package as needed, so long as they are written to present the same interface. If we're gonna go OO, let's do OO design rather than just use an OO language. A better starting track might be to design what packages (in the OO design lingo, not the linux lingo) are going to be needed to accomplish the job, then start considering what they'll have to do and how they'll have to be written. Properly done, we should not be designing around database engines, graphical toolkits, or anything like that. We should be designing around an abstraction, and meshing those choices to that abstraction. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
