[Chart] data-accessor, lens, and Chart

[Ben Gamari]

Tim Docker <tim at dockerz.net> writes:

> On 21/06/13 08:05, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I let this drop for so long. Has your opinion on this solidified
>> in the past few months?
>>
>>
>> I think it's probably ok, though I do wish lens wasn't such a huge
>> dependency when we are relying on only very small part of it. It's not just
>> a large dependency in terms of packages, but also conceptually.
>>
>>  I'll admit at this rate I'm a bit concerned that this set willjust
>> bitrot into oblivion unless some sort of timeline for reevaluation is
>> kept. This is especially true given the GSoC project; it's likely not
>> too late to rebase the abstract-drawing branch without too much pain.
>>
> I think we should do this the other way. Your lens changes were a
> relatively small amount of mostly mechanical work were they not? Jan has
> already put a couple of weeks work into abstracting the drawing API. Hence
> I think we should wait until the abstracted drawing is in the master branch
> before we do lenses. This will be I expect, weeks rather than months - Jan
> plans to merge the abstracted API before working on the diagrams backend.
> 
Sure, this seems reasonable. Let's continue this discussion when the
abstraction work is beginning to converge.

Cheers,

- Ben