OB/RB/Services

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 24 11:26:47 UTC 2005


Romain



> I am currently finalizing a new version of Services, so I'll work  
> on OmniBrowser again after this release.

Excellent, do you have a date/deadline target? Because we would  
really like to have that in 3.9 :)

>> A specific question:
>>
>> The Service framework provide categorized services anyone can use.  
>> OB allows one to configure a browser to ones needs. I have one  
>> extra degree of freedom there - should I tailor my own version of  
>> the browser to include those items, or just make all code browsers  
>> include relevant categories?
>
> The way I did it was to create a new browser, has I was reluctant  
> to override a lot of methods in OB
> (Specifically I only added some special actors to nodes, but  
> without modifying existing methods)
> I have to check with the new version of OmniBrowser how I would do  
> it now, as I understood it changed
> quite a lot since this version (which was 1.0b1 I think))

As services will become part of the kernel may be it make sense to  
provide a new version of OB
without creating a new browser.

>> If you're working in/interested in this space, let's talk about it.
>
> Well, I definitely am ;-)


Stef



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