Re: [Modeling-users] Greetings and questions

[Sebastien B. <sbi...@us...>]

Federico Heinz <fh...@vi...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:44, Sebastien Bigaret wrote:
> > Hopefully those two elements will help you see what remains. Roughly,
> > I'll summarize that in: flattened relationships, vertical mapping,
> > compound PKs, support for stored procedures, allow delegates to
> > fine-tune any part of the processes, add more db adaptors.
>=20
> As the person who probably did the most noise towards the need to
> implement vertical mapping, I want to say that upon closer inspection,
> it probably doesn't matter so much --- at least for us, so we wouldn't
> care if vertical mapping went back to the bottom of the to-do (although
> flattened attributes would still be very useful).

Fine, this is probably what will happen then!

> What *would* be very cool indeed, and in my opinion far more important,
> is completion of the optimistic locking logic.

  Sure, and thanks for remembering --this is something I forgot in my
  previous message and in the roadmap posted earlier. This is an
  _unintentional_ lapse of memory although I consider it to be a quite
  high priority item. One of the reasons for making it high priority is
  that it is tighly related to the long-standing sessioning exposed in
  the User's Guide:
http://modeling.sf.net/UserGuide/framework-integration-sessioning-ec.html

=20=20=20
> > [...] Unfortunately, there is no
> > sample app. Making a tutorial is on the TODO list, but at this point I
> > must admit that I lack time for that. In other words, help needed! and
> > I'll be happy to participate in the design of a sample app.  supporting
> > a tutorial ;)
>=20
> We might be contributing a sample app soon, as part of an
> Appkit-inspired widget set we're in the process of developing for our
> GPL'ed application.=20

That would be great!

> > I'm sure you do not mean "reverse engineer" (which is illegal)
>=20
> Don't worry, reverse engineering is legal in most places, including such
> fascist, backwards and dictatorial countries such as the US! In Europe,
> I understand it is very heavily protected. Even the draconian DMCA has
> special provisions to allow for reverse engineering.

  It's just that I hate those legal issues, so I prefer to stand back:
  avoiding an unnecessary way keeps the lawyers away ;) However, I
  didn't even know it could be legal in most places, interesting.

-- S=E9bastien.