Hi everyone
I’m coming to this chat (and Insiders in general) a bit late but I’m catching up now, and I’d like some thoughts on this from another angle, if not for any other reason than to help my understanding.
It seems to me that a 2.0 Kit is effectively a Speckle worldview - at any one time, you apply a Speckle worldview to processing all data coming from all streams. Rando having its own kit to handle all Speckle data is saying “operating as Rando, this is how we’ll process all the data from Speckle streams”.
Since users won’t have kits in their faces as much in the 2.0 world, we can turn the dial slightly towards the developer and introduce a couple of extra mechanisms, such as:
- Schemas could be published separately as nuget packages - with any inheritance/composition required
- Conversion libraries could also be published separately, referencing schema nuget packages at will
- Kits could reference their own hand-picked set of conversion libraries (and therefore, schemas) - along with possibly other settings/rules/filters baked into the kit to suit the worldview of the kit
The structure of the repos themselves need not follow this separation of schemas, converters and kits - as long as they publish nuget packages.
So the in-house Rando developer can peruse the directories of available published (both externally and on their own intranet) schemas and conversion libraries and compose them into RandoKit. Of course, he will need to handle any conflicts e.g. ConversionA and ConversionB might use SchemaA and SchemaB which in turn inherit from different versions of BaseSchemaX - but that’s a periodic action that is only needed when Rando needs/wants to update its worldview.
The same work would be done by Speckle Systems in updating its own official Objects kit - it will be the result of reviewing the latest updates to the schemas and conversions and curating them into their own kit, which will be available to everyone happy to use as their default.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this concept? Am I missing some key aspects here?
Cheers
Nic