[Geoprisma-dev] config.xml ideas : automatism

[Yves Moisan]

> 
> > I agree things are pretty complicated in the xml file now, but I'm not
> > sure adding lots of automagic things is really helpful in the end.
> >   
> I disagree.  With 2-3 options max to set once instead of creating a 
> bunch of layer nodes, how can't this be helpful ?

Well for that case I agree it's helpful.  I thought I understood that
the magic would also be for things other than layer objects ?

> > Could we think of adding some parameter to the config file that would
> > tell GP to use automatic behaviour or something ?
> No need to.  It would be a new driver with its own options, so a second 
> way to do things.  

So we would have another object like we have the workspace object to use
with the workspace driver ?  Which means the "old" way of doing things
woudl still be supported with the old driver.  Makes me think about my
suggested mods to the workspace ...


> To keep in mind : my goal is to make it shorter, faster to create and 
> simpler for the implementers to create the config file, and 'automatism' 
> seems a good approach.

A mixture between a simpler xml and a certain degree of predefined
behaviour (a.k.a. automatism) would lead to an easier user experience.
But simplifying/moduralizing the xml will lead to a new driver anyways
so some degree of automatism can be applied then.  Just don't know when
it's best to do that when users want to print and position vertices at
exact coordinates and filter data for different user roles and ...

Yves