[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Gerry Creager]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:39:33PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jdw at eng.uah.edu> flavor, containing:
>>  On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:27 PM, William McKeehan wrote:
>>
>>> This would require Xastir having an "http" style
>>> server that would serve up pages and would respond to certain queries with 
>>> XML
>>> code.
>>  Nice idea - this would be a reasonably easy interface for add-on tools.
>>
>>  This makes me think of the Xastir version 2 database engine.  Developers, 
>>  any  thoughts on v2?
> 
> I have many thoughts --- not the least of which is "It's long overdue."  
> 
> My personal preference is that cool features like the one William proposes
> are best done in a completely rewritten version of Xastir, one that is less
> full of "creeping featurism" and more modularly and flexibly designed from the
> start.  

You're old enough to know better:  That's "Feeping creaturism"

> If there's ever any serious interest in getting that design started I would be
> interested in participating, but have neither the time nor energy to kick-start
> the effort myself.  Xastir2 has been a pipe dream trotted out every few months
> since I first joined this list, and several developers have come and gone
> waiting for a chance to help out with it.
> 

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