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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:42:16 -0600

John Schinnerer writes:
> Aloha,
>
> > Backing up a bit... do we really have to manually define every
> > possible guild PIW is to represent??
> ....
> > I thought the idea was to develop a system that allowed people
> > to explore possible guilds. i.e. pull up several plants/objects
> > and compare their needs/benefits to see if they would be compatible.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out Richard...
> I also thought the idea was to create a system which could
> extract/extrapolate guilds based on data stored about plants, with maybe a
> few explicit examples of 'canned' guilds.

I agree that a static concept of guilds is potentially misleading. I
also think it was a mistake to use guild membership as an example of
relationships and rather wished I'd used something else. Anyway,
hopefully bad examples won't be too distracting.

Curious to hear from Stephanie about all of this.

> And yes, another good reason to have at least a plain English document
> that describes what it is we're actually trying to do here...
>
> John S.

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Chad Knepp
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