[Chart] data-accessor, lens, and Chart

[Tim Docker]

On 21/06/13 08:05, Ben Gamari wrote:

Sorry I let this drop for so long. Has your opinion on this solidified
in the past few months?


I think it's probably ok, though I do wish lens wasn't such a huge
dependency when we are relying on only very small part of it. It's not just
a large dependency in terms of packages, but also conceptually.

 I'll admit at this rate I'm a bit concerned that this set willjust
bitrot into oblivion unless some sort of timeline for reevaluation is
kept. This is especially true given the GSoC project; it's likely not
too late to rebase the abstract-drawing branch without too much pain.



I think we should do this the other way. Your lens changes were a
relatively small amount of mostly mechanical work were they not? Jan has
already put a couple of weeks work into abstracting the drawing API. Hence
I think we should wait until the abstracted drawing is in the master branch
before we do lenses. This will be I expect, weeks rather than months - Jan
plans to merge the abstracted API before working on the diagrams backend.

Cheers,

Tim


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tim Docker <tim at dockerz.net> writes:
>
> > (Looks like the github migration may be paying off already)
> >
> > I've had the same feelings about data-accessor, but have not yet used
> > lens. So I'm broadly in favour of this idea, but I'd like a little time
> > to get comfortable with lens, or at least the elements of it used by
> > your code .
> >
> Sorry I let this drop for so long. Has your opinion on this solidified
> in the past few months?
>
> I'll admit at this rate I'm a bit concerned that this set willjust
> bitrot into oblivion unless some sort of timeline for reevaluation is
> kept. This is especially true given the GSoC project; it's likely not
> too late to rebase the abstract-drawing branch without too much pain.
>
> > It would be good to hear the opinions of other chart users.
> >
> It seems those that responded last time were generally supportive with
> one neutral.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
>
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