11 Aug
2009
11 Aug
'09
4:56 p.m.
On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
I'd really prefer that we call it xwiki-formula meaning that it
contains APIs for formula manipulation (even if right now the only API
we offer is one that generates an image). Same as we have xwiki-chart
for manipulating charts.
Rendering has a strong connotation in xwiki land. It means
http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/RenderingModule
+ the name is pretty long and ungainly (it seems nicer to me to keep
module names as short as possible)
After more thinking I don't think it fits as a Renderer since the main
idea of a Parser/Renderer is that you parse with any parser and you're
able to use any renderer. This wouldn't be the case here.
Thanks
-Vincent
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu
wrote:
I'd agree to use rendering but *only* if:
* It's integrated inside the xwiki-rendering module
* It's implemented as a XWiki Parser and Renderer (and thus we
introduce a syntax for it)
I think it could fit well in the xwiki-rendering module. We'll need
to
adjust a few things (since it would be the first renderer to generate
binary data) but that's a good thing.
WDYT?
Well, it doesn't actually do parsing or rendering. The code is really
small, and it just forwards the text to a service, which returns the
binary blob.
But I don't understand why do you insist on this conflict between
image
rendering and text rendering? Q: Is the
macro name appropriate? Do you know of a better one?
Point taken: formula is better
than equation. Actually, initially it
was
named "formula", but I didn't like it that much. Anyway, the
community
has spoken.
Point not taken: rendering is the right name IMO. Before xwiki-
rendering
as a syntax converter, rendering has a widely accepted sense as
generating raster graphics. From Wikipedia: "Rendering is the
process of
generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs".
This
is what the module does, and the fact that we have another thing
called
"rendering" doesn't mean that we must invent new names for something
standard.