Re: [gef-dev] Moving provisional API of DOT and Cloudio to internal?

[Fabian Steeg <steeg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

+1, releasing the DOT and Cloudio components as pure end-user components 
for 1.0.0 sounds sensible.

Cheers,
Fabian

On 09.02.2016 09:26, Alexander Nyßen wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> I was thinking about how to proceed in detail with our GEF4 DOT
> component for the upcoming 4.0.0 release. While we could expose
> DotImport, DotExport, and DotProperties (which are currently the only
> provisional API), that would probably not provide much benefit to
> adopters unless we also expose parts of the DOT.UI module
> (Dot2ZestGraphConverter). As I think it likely that we will have to
> revise at least the DotProperties mechanism to some extent (because some
> property values follow an own grammar, so that enumerating all valid
> values will not be appropriate in all cases; I am currently
> investigating how we can integrate such „embedded“ grammars already into
> the Dot grammar as an alternative), exposing it for 1.0.0 is probably
> not the best idea.
>
> As such, I was thinking of moving the currently exposed three classes
> (DotImport, DotExport, DotProperties) into internal packages as well, so
> that DOT would be a pure end-user component for 1.0.0. That would give
> us the chance to work on DOT more intensively (i.e. add further features
> like the integration of the dot executable for layouting) without
> affecting any API. Do you guys see any objections?
>
> Further that could also be a way to go for Cloudio with 1.0.0. The
> current API still needs some refactoring, and while that could be
> achieved up to M7, we could probably spend this effort much better in
> other places (to augment MVC and Zest). What do you think?
>
> Cheers
> Alexander
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