[Boa Constr] Boa, MVC, documentation and random bable

[Yanko, C. (GSP) <Ya...@gs...>]

I'm hearing lots of great things but let me pipe up on a few items.

What are the 'requirements' for the 1.0 release?

Do you have any high level design documentation for Boa?

Don't you think it is too easy to get lost in the details of 'which features
do we want' when the focus should be on getting a working product to market,
albeit with a minimal set of features.

I, for one, would be happy with a usable IDE that allows me to do my GUI
building. Code completion and such would be nice but it is the GUI builder
that sets Boa apart. (bear with me as I drift off topic for a minute).

...I feel that there is something fundementally wrong with the way we teach
programming languages and it shows up in our projects. We teach them like
the english language, learning the vocabulary and syntax first. More
abstractly, we teach the very small and build to the larger constructs.
Programming however, needs to be taught in reverse almost. Analysis should
be the first thing we teach! What is it we need? What does it need to do?
What language it is implemented in isn't even up for consideration yet! Once
we know, in detail, what we want, we can set about designing it. Do you see
where I'm going with this?..

...back to reality. Ok... Riaan, what little time I've been able to look at
your code. I've been very impressed. I'm personaly struggling with MVC but
I'll get over it. I would like to see Boa become not only a great IDE/GUI
builder but a model of project developement as well. So... what are the
projects goals? What are the requirements and which ones are the most
important. What task are needed to accomplish them and who will do them.

I think I can help with documentation and some of the coding but I've been
in a hold pattern. This is a project that is near and dear to my heart since
I have settled on Python as my language of choice and wxPython as my GUI
library of choice.

I fear this has become more bable than anything but it is my way of standing
up and being counted here.

-Curtis Yanko