- From: David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:21:55 -0600
- To: James Fuller <jim@webcomposite.com>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
On 02/17/2014 07:40 AM, James Fuller wrote: > Many, many people repeated to me that XProc does poorly in the first > five minutes, in fact, it takes several sessions before basic concepts > crystallize. Many people give up at this stage but those that make it > through, turn into hard core XProc users, as they have run up and over > the learning curve. Likewise, for many users the xproc pipeline is something you get working and leave alone for months. By the time you need to make a change to it, you've forgotten the concepts and face the difficult "first five minutes (hours?)" problem again. There's a common trade-off between "making easy thing easy" and "making hard things possible". XProc indeed came down firmly on the "make hard things possible" side of that trade-off at the expense of making easy things easy. Perhaps some user stories/epics would help? As the maintainer of an xml publishing tool chain, I would like to replace my kludgy Ant or make tool chain with XProc. Then focus on what makes each story hard. I have to say though that once you have it working, it's great! Regards, David
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