Making analysis applications easy to write.

Last Significant Update:

2024-06-20

Status:

Draft

Comments to:

mensurae@jkoshy.net

Mensurae is a platform over which users (developers) would write their own custom tools and scripts, in addition to using the tools and scripts that bundled with the project by default.

Reuse-Centric Design

Designing the framework as a collection of APIs that can be combined in ways that the user wants.

Well-documented APIs

  • Mensurae’s APIs should be have clear reference documentation.

  • Its APIs should have tutorials and introductory material that help a new user to become productive with the toolkit.

Modular and Extensible Tests

It should be easy to reuse and augment Mensurae’s test framework for the local extensions.

Modular Documentation

It should be easy for users to augment Mensurae’s documentation for their own use. This would also make it easy to request a 'pull' of their local features upstream.

See also: Documentation: Source Format.

Community

We would need fora where users could ask questions about the use of the tools and libraries, like mailing lists, Q&A websites, or other similar fora on the 'net.