Posted by ccrraaiigg on Feb 18, 2011; 11:42pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/A-new-GUI-visual-designer-tp3067111p3313714.html


Hi Bill--

> You are setting up some of the same mistakes that were made in
> SmartReferenceStream, only with both sides involved.

     What mistakes were those?

> This is a simple problem calling for a careful solution.

     I agree, and this seems a lot simpler to me than what has come before.

> What you are doing *could* be ok with the developer of both systems
> on hand to monitor it, but that will be rare.

     Hm, I don't think that's true. In my use so far, this system has
reduced the number of situations requiring human intervention, not
increased them (mostly to do with missing prerequisites, out-of-date
class definitions, and class name conflicts).

> What you want are tools that make it easy to write the converters
> (which belong in the affected classes, not the serializer - another
> SmartReferenceStream oddity).

     Naiad (Spoon's module system) is indeed implemented that way; there
is no "serializer".


-C

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