From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T02:42:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Tycho - A PIM under development

Hal Fulton wrote:
>
> Carsten Eckelmann wrote:
>
> > I will like to assist.
>
> Glad to hear it, welcome! :)
>
> > I think this calls for a 'pluggable' architecture. This is what makes
> > JEdit so attractive. The core team concentrates only on making the
> > Basics just right and let users add their favorite 'pet' function
> > themselves by giving them a well defined API.
>
> That is a good idea. I would like to see all the most basic features
> added before coding plugin capability, I think.
>
> When we do make it plugin-capable, FreeRIDE's infrastructure (called
> FreeBASE -- now separable from FreeRIDE) might be a good one to use.

I just wanted to add my two cents in here.

If you are willing to invest in the learning curve of using FreeBASE, it
would be an excellent choice. But there would be a learning curve.

FreeBASE was developed as part of FreeRIDE which is, itself, entirely plugin
based. It was designed to separate and independent of FreeRIDE. Rich Kilmer
is using it in a couple other projects, and I also using it in another
project.

When we have time, we will break out FreeBASE into its own RubyForge
project. At the moment, you can read about it here:

   http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FreeBASE

Curt