[Cosmo-dev] Dashboard Plumbing Stuff

[Bobby Rullo]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:

> Responses inline ...
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> Bobby Rullo wrote:
>> Well, it depends on what you mean by intelligence. If you are  
>> talking about a domain model in which the objects know how to save  
>> themselves, and collections are really collections of items, then  
>> I think that is out of the question. That's not a re-factoring,  
>> that's a complete rewrite almost. I wrote a wiki page on that  
>> here: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Journal/AnemicVersusRich It  
>> might be hard to understand though, since I really was just using  
>> it for debating with myself.
>
> I have a quick question -- who won the debate? :)

Jury is still out apparently. Seems like Travis is in favor a richer  
domain model, having items know how to save themselves, etc. He's  
avoided some of the hairier bits (like having collections actually  
hold references to all the items in it) but it's still a tad risky  
given that it will cost us some re-writing.

Given that we'll be touching all that code anyway though, what's one  
more major paradigm shift?

Bobby