From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T18:22:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Refactoring Tycho API - Opinions wanted

Hello Clifford,

CH> Good move not starting on the GUI, but you need to start even further
CH> back, with a conceptual data model. The API is then a simple consequence
CH> of the data model.

No i don't agree here. The UI and the way to present data, has such a huge
influence that it must be considered in every development cycle.

Here we are talking about use cases not about a button here or there.
And adding a user interface on top of a existing data model allways
result in too much restrictions.

Tycho is an application where the user interface is the key to
success.

And by the way, Hal, the knock out criterium for the first tycho
version was the non available multi dimensional classification. When i
download such tools and only see a simple tree, i delete the
application within the first five minutes - no matter what else is
there.


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