Gang,
First, a reminder to sign up on perl-widget-developer if you want to keep
up with this thread. Already there are posts going there that are *not*
going to modperl.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-widget
We have achieved Milestones 1 and 2.
* Milestone 1 - a proof of concept prototype of code
* Milestone 2 - a SourceForge project set up for it
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>Then given the assumption that those objects are simple, many more people
>can implement them. If I have to be concerned about a lot of stuff
>everytime I make a widget like multilingual support hooks and event hooks
>then I will never write a widget because I don't have time.
>
>This is why I want widgets to be tiny and atomic. Let's make it simple. If
>you want multilingual can there be some way of making the multilingual
>features a wrapper around existing atomic widgets? Same for events and
>other such expert features.
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It is absolutely my intent to satisfy the minimalist's needs.
Gunther intends to use these widgets in a simple and elegant way which
represents how *many* people will first use the Perl Widget Library.
I promise that simple widgets will be simple to write.
Frankly, complex widgets will be pretty simple to write.
I want a module that fits into people's *existing* software. After that,
they may find it valuable to expand and use the other features.
I envision the following four user-driven Milestones.
(Real users, real value!)
If we satisfy the first-round needs of Gunther, Jay, and Stephen,
we will have a set of software which meets many of your needs out there.
<Please do *not* discuss this post on the modperl list, only on
perl-widget-developer.>
I also don't want to put a lot of emphasis on what feature is in what
release. Essentially, this is my attack plan. Any of you are free to
accelerate the development of one or another feature.
o Milestone 3: get it ready for Gunther Birzniek's needs
x get HTML generation of Pods working to own site
x get rid of -w warnings in cgi-bin/cgiexample
o add named-parameters to constructors: Controller, State, Config
o add named-parameter, "state_args" => $cgi
o resolve $widget->value() and $widget->values()
* When Gunther is happily using the PWL in his application, we will
consider this milestone achieved.
* Gunther, I am close to a release that I think will be usable to you.
I may then need you to write a Widget::Config::Extropia or whatever
and give me feedback on what sucked about the API.
After that I need you to come up with a detailed checklist of changes
that need to be made to achieve the milestone.
(Of course we will discuss it all on the perl-widget-developer mailing
list.)
o Milestone 4: internationalization for Jay Lawrence's needs
o incorporate concepts of internationalization (string lookup)
o add Widget::HTML::TextLabel (?) widget with internationalization
abilities
o add Widget::HTML::Money (?) widget with internationalization abilities
* When Jay is happily using the PWL in his application, we will
consider this milestone achieved.
* Jay, same for you as for Gunther. I just put his milestone before yours
because I want to make the simple things simple. But of course we
will be
working on it all at the same time.
o Milestone 5: enhance the vision for Stephen Adkins' needs
o add Widget::HTML::Template widget
o add Widget::HTML::DualOrderedMultiSelect widget
o incorporate a "parent" concept into widgets, and event bubbling
o incorporate concept of browser sensitivity
o add support for Javascript in the <head>
o add cgi-bin/wexec (CGI script for running full-widget UI)
* When Stephen is happily using the PWL in his application, we will
consider this milestone achieved.
o Milestone 6: Release as Widget-1.00 and announce to modperl and Perl
community
o get Pod documentation of classes up to speed
o create a better statement of "what this is"
o create a list of "have you ever wished that... ?" questions to
interest people
o add mod_perl support
