[Dev] Feedback on repository documents requested

[John Anderson]

I think Andi is missing an important point a here:

Almost all the use of the repository by real people today, and in the 
foreseeable future, is via parcel XML and the a small amount of 
repository API. Learning how to use the repository from the perspecive 
of parcel XML is essential to learning the repository in real world 
applications.

I think it's unfortunate that we ended up with two different XML 
formats, parcels and packs, which have a nearly idential purpose -- I 
think they should have been combined, and if not, I think that parcel 
XML belongs more to the repository than to Chandler, CPIA or any other 
project.

John

Andi Vajda wrote:

>
>> 1) A general overview of how the repository fits in with the rest of 
>> Chandler would be helpful. I think it's implicit in the doc that the 
>> repository can be used separately and also as part of the Chandler 
>> PIM. Would be clearer if this were made explicit. Thus, this doc 
>> addresses both people who want to develop parcels on top of the 
>> Chandler PIM and also parcels completely independent of the Chandler 
>> PIM.
>
>
> Actually, developing parcels is a Chandler activity, the repository 
> doesn't understand parcels, they are a funtionality introduced in a 
> layer above the repository.
>
> Andi..
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