Mike,
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I put
> myself in John's 'perfect design' camp not because I crave complexity,
> but because plastic does not satisfy MY requirements (actual as well
> as what I believe is needed for apps other than simple tools) for a
> messaging system. If a plastic roadmap can't fix that, I guess I'll
> never see the charm in it.
apologies if we've covered this already and more recent parts of the debate have displaced it in my short term memory, but can you give one or more examples of which messaging requirements you have which cannot be satisfied by PLASTIC? It would be good to add a use case or two which fits this description to the wiki page:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ApplicationsMessagingUseCases
so we can make sure that whatever we end up with does actually solve the problems which we need solved. I've just (belatedly) added one of my own which represents one of the scenarios which PLASTIC can handle well and which I think it's important that any replacement of it can do too.
Mark
-- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/Received on 2007-04-23Z17:23:40