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Re: [Ann] Workflow

Stephane Ducasse-3
Thanks a lot netstyle.
I will see if I can ask students to reverse engineer and write tests for it.
But may be people will do it before :)

Stef

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Max Leske <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Stef has asked me whether Netstyle would release our workflow engine to the
> public, so here goes:
>
> Workflow (originally called "Aare") was conceived as part of an application
> that Netstyle developed back in the day. We can't release all of that code
> but we can release the engine. I've published it on Github with an MIT
> license (loadable via baseline): https://github.com/Netstyle/Workflow.
>
> Please note:
> - Workflow used to depend on OmniBase for storing objects (one of the main
> superclasses inherited from an OmniBase class for that). I've removed that
> dependency.
> - As this only includes the engine, there's no UI and the things shown in
> the whitepaper (see repository) are technically correct but are missing the
> appropriate model (the UI was written with Magritte and Morphic).
> - The code is from 2005 and we haven't touched it since then, so there might
> be a couple of hiccups.
> - We can't provide full support for the code but I'll be happy to talk to
> anyone interested in maintaining or improving it.
>
>
> We at Netstyle hope that Workflow may be useful to some of you.
>
> Cheers,
> Max