Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 6:17 AM, chuck hinkle at chuckbo at hinkles.us wrote:

>>> 2) a Point datatype (along with a geographic extension to SQL ... see
>>> Oracle Spatial);
>> 
>> Data type POINT ?
>> 
>> And this will make you happy?  :-)
>> Explain please why?
> 
> 
> This is probably the least useful to most people, but it's very fine if you
> need it. I don't have a project for it now, but I've needed it in the past
> for grpahing.
> A point refers to an X,Y coordinate, so you can store a Lat/Long there. I
> haven't played with Oracle Spatial, so I don't know the WHERE clause syntax,
> but let's say that you are storing landmarks with a point. You can then do a
> query where you pass a point to the database and have it return all items
> within a certain distance from that point. That's a tricky thing to program
> (and optimize) without point data because the distance calculation is based
> on a circle's radius.
> So don't take that dream very seriously, but I just wanted to provide some
> extremely high goals for you to aim at.  :)

I see.

In the new design we have made own plugin system.
It is a target that we will have as Valentina plugins

-- Value Type
-- Field Type
-- Importer/Exporter
-- functions

We want to have ability give to DEVELOPER define own field type and required
methods for it. We will not get this in 2.0 although.

-- 
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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