pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

> John Schinnerer wrote:

> > I am here to help create a PC-based, PC-centric plant info database with
> > broad and deep applicability.
> > I am not here to help create a specialist/specialized DB for commercial
> > nursery operators or horticulturalists or
> > temperate-annual-veggie-market-farmers or whatever.
> > There is IMO no necessary conflict here. To repeat,
> >
> >
> >
> > > > If PC is a meta-design system, as we claim,
> > > > then a PC-centric database will implicitly support all these sorts of
> > > > more
> > > > specialized folks while simultaneously educating them in various
> > > > meta-domains (such as PC design, whether they know it or not).

I do support PIW being "a PC-based, PC-centric plant info database". 
Features specific to the needs of special groups (farmers, landscape 
architects, etc.) might best be added as front-end features in the user 
interface if that is the best way to go; otherwise they would need to 
exist at database-level.