Re: [MMXX-dev] Intro and interest

[Luca R. <lj...@us...>]

On 4/19/2000 3:00 PM, Frank V. Castellucci (fr...@co...) 
shared his wisdom:

>Hello MMXX'ers
>
>I am interested in this project for two reasons:
>
>1. I have been working extensively with meta-model driven applications
>and reasoning systems over the past five years.
>2. And, as the signature indicates, have a C++ class library project in
>the works.

Frank;

Welcome to the project! Your input and contributions will be greatly
appreciated.

>
>The first being useful if I may help by providing input based on
>experience and mistakes (more of the latter than the former)

This is indeed one of the most urgent tasks - scrutinizing MMXX's
APIs, internal methodologies and overall design to improve quality,
generality and strength. I hope that the development-level docs in the
distribution will be enough for you to familiarize yourself with it.
Devt-level docs are a high priority and I plan to release more soon.

> and the
>second because I am up against a problem in the class library
>implementation that I perceive only a type ontology can solve. 
>
>So, if this project gets moving along (can I assume it is LGPL), and it
>provides something that would save my time I would like to potentially
>drive some requirements.

The metaclass (i.e. ontology) API is another area in need of work and
that you might be interested in contributing to, since it sounds closely
related to what you need for your project and have been working on. The
current APIs are highly preliminary: thus far the focus has been on
addressing the fragile base class problem, that is to say the "Modules"
part of the MMXX acronym.

Best Regards,

Luca Raggi