[Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc is (going to be) going through changes!

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

All,

With all the work on the GUI that I have been doing  (review the latest cvs 
snapshot with the command:  "babeldoc pipelinebuilder" and go ahead and 
create a few pipelines)  I am going to have to change the configuration of 
pipelines.  This will roll to the scanner too, but lets get the pipelines 
working nicely.   At the moment we have this IConfigOptions object for each 
pipeline stage.  This (should) provide information about the configuration of 
the pipeline   stage.  I want to tie the actual configuration data to this 
object so that we can enforce things like isMandatory and isValid on the 
actual configuration values.  This will mean that the pipeline factory can 
actually check that the configuration is good before running the pipeline.  
This should mean that running a system will get easier.  So to recap - the 
underlying configuration of the pipelines from the PipelineStageResolver code 
to the PipelineStage code will be changing.  No more nested Maps nonsense - 
the data will be structured.  

Lets talk about how this will affect you.  At the moment I do not see that the 
actual pipelinestage code will change - its just that the implementation will 
change.  Email the list for questions / concerns.

regards,
Bruce.