Brainstorm first; define 1.0 later

[Michael Ströck]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Steven Degutis <steven at degutis.org> wrote:

> On the note of plugins, I think using Distributed Objects for remote access
> would also be a really nice way to provide integration with other native
> Cocoa apps (without the remote apps having to jump through hoops by way of
> NSNotifications or AppleEvents directly or whatever). I've only seen DO used
> in Papaya.app for this purpose, but it works really well (and a lot of the
> problems with using DO seem to disappear when you use it for IPC instead of
> remote machine messaging).
>


First, I'd like to throw something out there: The baseline for me, is NOT
any current standard desktop application. The mail solution to beat is GMail
run in Mailplane.app. For me personally, nothing else comes close to the
power and ease of use of that combination.

- Plugins: I think it is essential to make plugins as simple to write as
possible, and preferably in a language that is more expressive than
Objective-C when doing text manipulation. Pyhton/Ruby/JavaScript are all
very simple to integrate into Objective-C applications.

- Underlying text system: This should be abstract, robust and international.
(Something like what Allan Oodgard seems to going for in the mythical beast
known as TextMate 2.0 :-)

- IDNA: My actual domain name is ströck.com <http://xn--strck-lua.com> (yes
with an umlaut). Nuff said.

- Data Storage: This needs to be standard enough to be read with ease by
somebody who has never seen the rest of the code, but still support
Spotlight and be very fast... Not exactly easy. And I agree that ideally, I
should be able to write into it from another application while the main
application is running, but that may be a bit much to ask.


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