Also, to further this point, I think that an API reference is important, but
not the main goal of this project. This is a data project, so we should look to
standardize our data format, not an API ontop of the data. This is a much
better approach.
Take a look at frontend javascript. This standard is unusable in browsers, or
pretty much anything other than Java or OO. Not surprising given the age of
this standard. A standardize data format (think JSON) could easily be consumed
on both front and backend. Just some food for thought :)
From: Reza Naghibi <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: How to get the DDRSimpleAPI source code? (was: Does the build
work?)
Everything is located here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/DDR-Simple-API/
It looks like a reference implementation. I agree, referencing that specific
implementation makes the code pretty much unusable. What needs to happen is an
analytics or web framework project would have to implement said W3C reference
implementation, publish the implementation, and then we would create an
interface to it. Making an interface to the actual reference is cart before the
horse. Since we dont own any platform or framework solutions, not sure how we
can drive this other than asking that other projects use this standard.
From: Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:09 PM
Subject: How to get the DDRSimpleAPI source code? (was: Does the build work?)
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Reza Naghibi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are the commands to manually install the w3c_ddr_simple jar artifact
> locally....
(commands quoted below)
Ouch - people should be able to build our dependencies from source
code - is the source code of that DDRSimpleAPI available?
If not I'm afraid we cannot release software that depends on it.
Requiring our users to build stuff from source is less than ideal but
acceptable, whereas requiring them to download mysterious binaries is
not.
-Bertrand
> wget http://www.w3.org/TR/DDR-Simple-API/DDRSimpleAPI.jar
>
> mvn install:install-file -Dfile=DDRSimpleAPI.jar -DgroupId=org.w3c.ddr
> -DartifactId=simple -Dversion=20081205 -Dpackaging=jar
