[Calendula-devel] construction plans to date

[Bill Bell]

On 15 Mar 2004 at 10:00, Thomas Panzarella wrote:
> 
> What I will agree on is that "strong testing" ...

I seem to hear you alluding to the idea that language choice and testing strategy are 
interdependent. If so, I definitely agree, FWIW. We would need to discuss this 
further. In fact, we need statements about language choice and testing strategy.

More generally, I haven't noticed any outline about software engineering for this 
project. Perhaps we should start one, so that, as far as possible, we discuss issues 
once, record decisions, then move on to issues that haven't been decided.

> Don't know about [Leo] ... send some links that we could check out...

http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html

... which seems to provide a link to literate programming, as a bonus. I was amazed 
to see an idea as old as this re-emerge; still, it might help us.

> >Or, maybe there's a free vehicle that supports UML; I'd love to know about 
> >one.
> http://www.gentleware.com/products/descriptions/ce.php4

Thanks. Poseidon seems to be most closely associated with java, but then Leo 
favours Python work. Either looks interesting to me. Let's put this matter into an 
outline. Once we have enough items, let's priortise them, and finish discussions, so 
that we can move on.

> Anyway, I absolutely don't want to debate over language preferences
> with anyone.  ...I'm interested in helping non-profits, not debating
> the technical merits of Python vs. Java or whatever.... 

So you concede that Python is better???? Only joking! 

I don't care either. However, we need to start a process for taking decisions in order 
to make progress.

Bill