[ImageJ-devel] Design meeting notes

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> A few of us met for several hours today to discuss some design issues 
> for ImageJ 2.0. The original goal of the meeting was to begin defining a 
> new core class hierarchy corresponding to many of ImageJ's historically 
> most central classes: e.g., ImagePlus, ImageStack, ImageProcessor. 
> However, we discussed several other architectural issues as well. I 
> tried to take notes but they ended up being very terse. Nonetheless, I 
> wanted to mention their availability at:
> 
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=13zVORIFldha5xT8C3wUPLPGr_ok30rh9whLrEsxYA_s

When you write that you want to kill ij.io.FileInfo, I hope you meant 
"deprecate" instead. A number of plugins use this class.

Also, I am wary of the MVC design discussions. This all sounds as if your 
target was again a single-desktop application, and not an image processing 
library extensible via plugins which just so happens to also have an 
interactive backend for end users.

In other words, I get the impression that not everybody understood what 
the @parameter design is about. It is not about making writing plugins 
simpler -- that is a side effect. It is solely to support CellProfiler, 
KNIME, cluster and grid execution etc.

Otherwise: impressive job.

Ciao,
Johannes