pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

John Schinnerer writes:
 > Aloha,
 > 
 > For the less technical among us, I will translate Chad's comments 
 > succinctly:
 > 
 > "I sure enough know what I am doing here and I am all over the OO design 
 > issues, yeh mon!"
 > 
 > :-)

Flattery will get you anywhere ;-) ...and threading issues too.  I
aced CS 315 'Microsoft Visual C++' by doing all the assignments in C
with the GTK+ toolkit on Linux with the skeptical approval of an open
minded prof.  Do I sound arrogant now?

 > >  > So what attributes (data) and methods (code) are most fundamental to 
 > >  > what we're doing?
 > >  > Should we have a wiki page for tracking this thread...?
 > >  > Chad, have you already got a working idea of where to start here?
 > >  > If so pass it around, let's see what the rest of us make of it.
 > > 
 > > Plant objects are pretty obvious, at least the attributes.  I will
 > > submit an attribute proposal based on our current dataset for comments
 > > in the very near future.
 > 
 > This is one of the areas that I think we already discussed...we want to 
 > get lots of input from our potential user base to flesh out the 
 > "obvious" attributes with "what da people want..."
 > 
 > I'm thinking we do our best, starting with your proposal, and then put 
 > some sort of simple working prototype out there for the larger community 
 > to see and comment on.  Hopefully they actually will, and that will give 
 > us perhaps some additional takes on attributes that "real-world" users 
 > would find useful.

Specifically the locale specific attributes are not well represented
in the PFAF/Eden data model.  There are certainly other things I
haven't thought of.  I will post a list of current attributes in the
dataset tomorrow to kick off the discussion.

 > <snip>

-- 
Chad Knepp
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