[ImageJ-devel] Design meeting notes

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Unfortunately, the discussion wasn't well captured in the notes. 
> Contrary to how it might have appeared, I think the desire for an MVC 
> design actually illustrates our focus on "ImageJ as library."

Good! That was my concern.

> The reality is that much of the engineering challenge of ImageJ *does* 
> come down to how the GUI is structured, since many developers do want to 
> leverage portions of the GUI (as a library) in their applications. So 
> there are many layers to consider...

There are. But the most important is the lowest-level layer. And I think 
with what Grant did (based on my @parameter proof-of-concept), things are 
definitely moving into a good direction. Fiji (+plugins) will be very 
usable, even from other frameworks/libraries.

> > Otherwise: impressive job.
>
> I think the discussion served more to get us all on the same (or at 
> least similar) page, and thinking about these topics, than it did to 
> make any substantial design progress. We did settle on our priorities 
> for the conference presentation, at least, so that is good.

I agree. The overall direction is definitely good (not that I would expect 
any project lead by you and Grant to go anywhere else...!)

Ciao,
Dscho