[Chandler-dev] Re: Next steps: external information model

[Ted Leung]

Ok,

So I finally spent some quality time with <http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-August/ 
006692.html>.  In general this looks good to me, and the EIM looks  
especially good since we are going to have a relational database  
under the hood of Cosmo now.

There are a few items from the open issues section of the proposal  
that I think that we should flesh out:

1. It seems to me that we are going to want to do diffs in our  
pursuit of good sharing performance, so working out the key  
management section is probably important.   Note that I am not  
talking about the "Processing Diffs" section of the proposal, which  
has to do with diffs between versions of schemas.  I am talking about  
computing diffs of items to reduce the amount of data transmitted  
over the wire.

2. I'd like to see us try to address the "Type Information" issue as  
well, since one of the next (huge) steps for the Cosmo UI is to get  
away from being hard-coded to events.   If we are going to put in a  
new infrastructure for Cosmo UI, I'd prefer that we put in the  
correct one from the start.

Ted