[Geoprisma-dev] config.xml ideas : automatism

[Yves Moisan]

Alexandre,

That said, I don't want to stop your energy : if you want to scratch
that itch and provided the old driver is still working (i.e. no
backwards incompatible changes), then by all means have fun !

Yves

> Yves Moisan wrote:
> > 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 ?
> >   
> 
> For now, I would stick to simplify the layer objects.
> 
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> > 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.
> Yes
> 
> 
> >   Makes me think about my suggested mods to the workspace ...
> >   
> Yeah...
> 
> 
> > 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 ...
> >   
> I see what you mean.
> 
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