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C/C++ and Ruby definition of the base types in Rock
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Spatio temporal type #86

Closed saarnold closed 8 years ago

saarnold commented 8 years ago

This type can be used to augment arbitrary data types with spatio-temporal information. The main use-case for this type is to augment informations related to a environment representation (e.g. maps) or a geographic information system. Where type transport normally happens sporadicly and data types might not allow introspection.

This type will be directly supported by the new Envire.

doudou commented 8 years ago

If this adapter is needed mainly by envire, I would suggest leaving it there. At least until we have a better idea of its general usefulness.

Adding metadata to transported types is not trivial, as it makes replay-ability a lot harder, and more generally goes against the ability for change.

saarnold commented 8 years ago

It would be possible to keep it in Envire for now yes. However I don't see much harm in having it in base types and it would probably be easier to add support to other libraries.

doudou commented 8 years ago

However I don't see much harm in having it in base types and it would probably be easier to add support to other libraries.

IMO base-types should not be a collection of "types that might be useful". I would avoid having such a type here until it shows more usefulness than envire (and I do see harm in such a type in general, so that's also a reason why I definitely :-1: its inclusion in base types)

saarnold commented 8 years ago

The type will be exported by envire.