On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Vincent Massol wrote: >> On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: >>>> Q: Is the macro name appropriate? Do you know of a better one? >>> Point taken: formula is better than equation. Actually, initially it >>> was >>> named "formula", but I didn't like it that much. Anyway, the >>> community >>> has spoken. >>> >>> Point not taken: rendering is the right name IMO. Before xwiki- >>> rendering >>> as a syntax converter, rendering has a widely accepted sense as >>> generating raster graphics. From Wikipedia: "Rendering is the >>> process of >>> generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs". >>> This >>> is what the module does, and the fact that we have another thing >>> called >>> "rendering" doesn't mean that we must invent new names for something >>> standard. >> >> I'd agree to use rendering but *only* if: >> >> * It's integrated inside the xwiki-rendering module >> * It's implemented as a XWiki Parser and Renderer (and thus we >> introduce a syntax for it) >> >> I think it could fit well in the xwiki-rendering module. We'll need >> to >> adjust a few things (since it would be the first renderer to generate >> binary data) but that's a good thing. >> >> WDYT? > > Well, it doesn't actually do parsing or rendering. The code is really > small, and it just forwards the text to a service, which returns the > binary blob. > > But I don't understand why do you insist on this conflict between > image > rendering and text rendering?
I'd really prefer that we call it xwiki-formula meaning that it contains APIs for formula manipulation (even if right now the only API we offer is one that generates an image). Same as we have xwiki-chart for manipulating charts. Rendering has a strong connotation in xwiki land. It means http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/RenderingModule + the name is pretty long and ungainly (it seems nicer to me to keep module names as short as possible) After more thinking I don't think it fits as a Renderer since the main idea of a Parser/Renderer is that you parse with any parser and you're able to use any renderer. This wouldn't be the case here. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
