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3:03:41
ck_
beach: I had asked you about Xanadu on Monday because the topic is quite niche, so there aren't many people to about it, related to clim because of the interface, and the notion of "a much better approach to something that unfortunately doesn't take off" seemed to resonate with your work.
3:04:43
beach
Yes, I started reading about it and I started watching the video. So far, it looks interesting, but I am not sure how to combine it with CLOSOS.
3:06:45
ck_
That seems to be the case quite often; things that are good individually but difficult to put together because of opposing metaphors or requirements
7:27:35
jackdaniel
I wonder, perhaps we should make a survey to guage a) interest, b) usage of; McCLIM
7:33:13
ck_
I have no strong feelings about this. When you do surveys, generally you should think about "is this a good time for asking the question" ? (because you can only do them so often) and "what will I do with the answers?"
7:37:23
beach
jackdaniel: What do you hope to learn from such a survey? Is it just that you are curious?
7:41:07
jackdaniel
mostly I'm curious about pain-points of users and about platforms used (in aggregate)
7:41:43
jackdaniel
as of why: there is only so many McCLIM developers, so focusing on the most annoying parts should be one of priorities
7:45:26
jackdaniel
i.e I have a gut feeling supported by some selective evidence, that people would like to run McCLIM without installing Xserver on osx and windows; or that the lack of double buffering is a major issue; but that's more guessing
7:46:55
ck_
I have some thoughts on this, but would prefer to delay the discussion or avoid participating in it because the day has only recently begun and I have some other buttons to push
7:48:05
ck_
but before I leave to do that I'd like to say that you first point "a) interest", does not seem to mesh exactly with the goals you mentioned later, because "interest" to me extends to a much larger group of people than active users or developers
7:57:13
scymtym
i would not do a survey at this point since there are a few specific expectations and complaints that are voiced often. asking about interest in features and priorities may come across as not having listened so far
8:35:12
contrapunctus
I've got `file` and `directory` classes specific to Dryad, which have a `location` slot whose value is the pathname the object is associated with. I want instances of these classes to be a possible source of pathnames for commands in other CLIM applications, if that makes sense...how might I implement this?
8:37:36
jackdaniel
i.e when `the-command-table' is `global-command-table', then it will be accessed globally