Re: widgetx coming soon... maybe?

Do it in a branch.

On Sunday 29 October 2006 9:41 am, Jesse Kuhnert wrote:
> Once the trunk/branch situation gets finalized I'd like to start a
> new subdirectory in the main tree for a little widget r&d. You may
> see a couple widgets duplicated (in name only) here and there, but
> it's not meant to be a competing sort of directory....Purely just
> research and fact finding stuff.
>
> If you don't like the idea of doing it just shield your eyes and
> pretend it isn't there. ;) Hopefully this will allow easy
> collaboration with others while also not impacting the core widget
> development tasks.
>
> I think a few of us have "an itch that needs itching" wrt to how a
> few things regarding widgets/objects/etc are done, so this seems like
> the ideal place to do it. If you are one of those people this message
> is meant to start your gears turning in the interim.
>
> The goals of what are to be done here aren't clear or formalized yet
> at all, so don't bother trying to pin anything down. It's just a
> general idea of "there has to be a better way". I know it's not stuff
> that fixes any one particular bug, but I've found that refactorings
> like this one tend to have side effects of fixing large globs of bugs
> without even knowing it.
>
> Generally speaking, my personal goals here are to :
>
> -) Reduce and compact the widget code by finding ways of re-using
> common blocks to do internal things...Maybe mix-ins will do well
> here. Not sure.
>
> -) Make the widget system & rendering of widgets "as fast as
> possible".
>
> -) Create and enforce some common styles of how to do things via a
> set of shared/common behaviors that people can expect. Simple things
> like escape key handling/whether or not to mangle or re-use existing
> html/etc...
>
> Probably more but there's too much potential to say for sure. I don't
> want to own the new subdir, just get it started so people interested
> can all collaborate and help figure this stuff out without
> traumatizing the current widget infrastructure.

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