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> Le 18/4/15 20:04, Yanni Chiu a écrit :
>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 2:18 AM, stepharo <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> I found strange that not a single little improvements of Magritte
>>> was necessary for the Qude project.
>> It’s not strange to me, because when working with Magritte 2, it
>> seemed that almost everything I wanted to do had a hook method to
>> override, or an obvious place to subclass or extend. So much so, that
>> when I could not find the extension point, I thought it was my fault.
>> What was missing was instance-based descriptions, which was added by
>> the community in Magritte 3.
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>> Given how well-factored Magritte 2 was, my deduction was that a lot
>> of effort had already been done to extract out an open-source
>> artefact, from whatever system drove it’s development. So, no
>> surprise that few improvements to the core Magritte were needed.
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> Ok so we have perfect software. Good to know.
>>> Now if heavy users of open-source libraries do not enhance these
>>> open-source libraries and keep their extensions
>>> under close source then the open-source libraries will never make
>>> progress and I will immensely sad.
>> Given that Magritte is already well-factored for extensions, what
>> tends to be written is exactly the custom code which you would not be
>> releasing to open-source.
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> but you see I did not use magritte since long time. It would be great
> to have example of custom-code.
> For example are relationships any useful.
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>> However, there might be a case for add-ons, such as Twitter Bootstrap
>> support. As mentioned in another post, changing the Magritte
>> API/interfaces at this point is tricky, because it would affect
>> current users - that’s the conundrum: success and wider adoption will
>> constrain the evolution.
> We have versions to help there.
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>> The addition of instance-based descriptions was worth the (minor)
>> pain of the transition, but what level of pain would be tolerable to
>> add Bootstrap support, especially if you’re not using Bootstrap.
> But we are talking about SeasideMagritte here?
> I do not know because I do not have experience.
> I was talking about magritte.
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