Hey, Rod. Thanks for the response.
(You, too, Nick.) I look forward to someone
weighing in who has spent some time with
Augment's internals. One day, maybe...
In the meantime, I had an epiphany of sorts
a while back. Basically, it became clear to
me that all open source projects start from
a kernel that exists in the form of code,
precisely because we have no really viable
mechanisms for carrying on a comprehensive
design discussion.
In fact, carrying on conversations "face to
face" turned out to have very little value,
for me personally, with respect to the design
issues I have been considering. Every time the
discussion veered close to these areas, it just
as determinedly veered away again.
Many and various valuable questions were raised
at those meetings. But who remembers what they
all were? For that matter, who could go back and
identify all the important issues raised in this
list? And how much time would such an effort
require?
I'm delighted to say that I've made some progress
in the design. But I've also had to backtrack
and rethink a dozen times or so. So at each stage,
any "proposal" I would have made would have been
so much horse hockey -- not worth the space it
would take to deliver it. And certainly would not
have rewarded anyone who spent their time
investigating it, since it would have changed
drastically within a week.
So it's clear to me that the design process has to
"quiesece" before the design is ready for general
review. What I can say at the moment is that the
design is driven 100% completely by the requirements
set out so long ago -- and that trying to develop
the core of a system capable of fulfilling those
requirements is turning out to be damn hard.
At the moment, I've been swamped by the complexity.
Recent decisions have produced the need for multiple
changes, all of which interact. I've felt the need
to pull back, gathering energy and creative momentum
for the next assault. With luck, though, I'll having
something in reasonable shape by the end of the month.
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