Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-06-07 20:07:40 +0300 Stefan Urbanek <stefan@agentfarms.net> wrote:

> On 2004-06-07 18:56:26 +0200 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > But well, I now understand why Enrico did that (to have clean separate 
> > parts); it's just that I really hope that in the future the code will be 
> > gathered in ONE app (but with the code in bundles, that could be 
> > interesting, I agree).
> Maybe a drawing of the current state and desired state would help. What do 
> you think? It is better to think when you have diagrams in front of your 
> eyes. Would it be possible to visualise current GWorkspace? Like: what are 
> apps, what are bundles, what are frameworks and how they are connected 
> together and how they copmmunicate.

Sure! And this is an other reason for which I've created many parts: I want to 
document all. I'll write documentation for each part that can be considered 
done. (and a diagram of all the relations between the various elements)
In the last four years, I've worked alone at GW, but I think that, with a good 
documentation, even other people could be involved.
GWorkspace is already full of parts that use bundles and that could, very 
easyly, accept contributions and extensions from other people: the file viewers 
are bundles, all the contents inspectors are bundles (Inspector can also add on 
the fly content inspectors bundles sent as NSData throught DO), the new Finder 
uses a bundle for each kind of search criteria, the FSNode framework will use 
bundles to display virtually any kind of information in the label of a icon or 
in a browser cell, etc..
The only think I need is, probably, a volunteer to help me to put all the stuff 
in a good English :-)