Re: [e4-dev] how to contribute to toolkit model ?

[Hallvard Trætteberg <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

yves (yingmin) yang wrote:
> I think we should not push a solution for technology reason.

e4 is technology, and it's the functionality and services it provides 
and how well it works together and can be extended that counts.

> It is what I said to use a technology blindly like a religion.
> Each technology has been designed for a specific purpose and
> therefore it has its limitation.

It's easy to agree, but what does it mean? Has XML been designed to 
model UI? Has EMF? IMO, a is UI less like documents that XML was 
designed for, and more like the structured data that EMF is designed 
for. And XML is less suited than EMF for the kind of processing we need.

> As for e4, We are in short time. We should not reinvent the wheel. As you
> said, XAML is proved by industry, it is complete and safe  solution.

I didn't say that, I wrote that XWT can more easily support custom 
widget. XAML is proven in part of the industry, but the XWT 
implementation is not that old.

> However, AFIAK, TM is still in research stage. In general, from research to
> industry, the path may be long.

I would not consider it research as the ideas are not new, just the 
implementation. I don't have strong feelings for my particular 
implementation of the idea of using EMF as the basis for a declarative 
UI representation, but I do feel strongly for using EMF instead of XML.

Hallvard