Re: [emfindex-dev] Contributing the QVT Declarative Model Registry to EM

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan
> So to be honest, I currently see very little overlap between your 
> meta-model registry and EMF Index, but it's likely I missed something.
I think we agree. This was rather my opinion when I tried to understand 
EMF Index before starting to formulate an EMF Registry proposal. Invited 
Sven amongst others to be a mentor. Sven felt that there was an overlap, 
so I pursued communication with the EMF Index project.

If you prefer, I will resurrect attempts to start an EMF Registry project.

However since locating models (EMF Registry) and exploiting them (EMF 
Index) is so complementary, users might appreciate it if we could 
combine the two functionalities in the one project. EMF Index will 
surely benefit from a more flexible approach to defining model location 
resolution. If nothing else, the name EMF Index appears to cover both 
functionalities. I suspect that if each project  were to evolve  
independently  the  current clear functionlity distinction might blur, 
so a single project could be better at avoiding duplicate inconsistent 
GUIs and persistence.

   Regards

      Ed Willink