Re: DIME Use Case?

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:30:50 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dime
Message-ID <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D07160ECD@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
>It's very often the case that it initially appears simpler to create a
>brand new spec for something, but that one quickly finds that the
>complexity in the spec you're replacing is there for a reason,
>especially when you try to cover a space slightly larger than your
>initial design space.

If you haven't considered separation of concerns then yes, you are
likely to run into extensibility problems later on. DIME was
deliberately not made extensible as there seem to be plenty of
extensible description frameworks that provide a slew of functionality
already.

Henrik