Re: The Taskmaker Returneth

Phil Cook <[email protected]>:
>
> On Friday 11 October 2002 12:41, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> > In the interest of getting some progress, I thought I'd try to set
> > some dates and distribute some tasks, since this has seemingly
> > worked in the past ;)
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> Sorry I've been absent from the discussions recently.  Work has
> taken more of my time than I'd anticipated (not to mention that
> pesky PhD thing!).

I'm sure that's true for most of us. Don't sweat it :)

> I doubt I'll be able to do anything useful for the 31 Oct milestone.
> Once semester is over I might have a bit more time up my sleeve, so
> hopefully I'll be able to contribute for the later alphas/release.

Sounds great!

> Magnus: what's the state of the documentation atm, particularly wrt
> the discussions regarding models, attribute updating etc.

It's a bit behind. I haven't documented the current version (Dallas's
implementation) at all yet.

Hopefully later releases will be of a more incremental nature, so
keeping the docs up to date will be a bit easier ;)

> (I know I wasn't the only one who got lost there!).  I think I need
> to reset my mental model of all that stuff before I can be of any
> help in that department!

Indeed. However, before we invest more effort in developing the MVC
stuff, I think we should try to find out what we need it for, and if
indeed we do need it as an integrated part of the API. The
simplification we may get from separating MVC from the main
API/mechanism seems attractive. Some specific examples of how we might
use MVC would be quite useful here...

Anyway: It seems that we have an implementation of this stuff that
works. The alternative would be a very simple solution (event-based) I
think, so no matter what the outcome is, work on this area needn't be
a high priority. Making the rest work, and implementing the new
components (including menus) is IMO far more important.

> Phil.

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland        Practical Python          The Anygui Project
http://hetland.org        http://ppython.com        http://anygui.org


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