xvcoffee opened this issue on Oct 26, 2002 ยท 23 posts
ockham posted Sat, 26 October 2002 at 10:58 AM
Agree with Bill. Some of the best products in history have succeeded because they used "plug-in architecture". The Ford Model T and the original IBM PC are classic examples. Each came from the factory with just the -barest- essentials for running, but was designed so that all kinds of accessories could be built by others and installed later. Poser gained -some- of that openness when it added Python, but the Python connection doesn't go deep enough to make many useful plugins possible from that direction. Python itself (with TKinter) is powerful enough to make things like material rooms and cloth rooms, with any kind of desired variations, but because most of the needed connections (APIs) are unavailable, it can't do everything it needs to do.