Library documentation
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Alongside with the core Lumiera Application, we're also creating several *Libraries*. +
This section holds pages with in-depth technical documentation regarding those. Please don't
expect a coherent or complete coverage for the time being -- library functionality is typically
``discovered'' while in the middle of the implementation, then factored out, reused and remoulded
over time.

Interface Library
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The Lumiera Application is designed deliberately in a way to be controllable by scripts. All of
the Session, the models and the backend are fully operational without the GUI. Any significant
functionality can be addressed through the primary Façade Interfaces.

But, in order to make such an open and extensible application a reality, we need to build up
an 'interface layer' -- provided as library for client code and script adapters to link against.
This library allows to access the primary external interfaces and exposes everything needed to
work with the specifics of the application.

[,yellow]#TODO as of 1/2012:# _this is just a nebulous plan for now._ Nothing of the work required
really to address facilities from the outside has been done. All we've managed to achieve is actually
to use clean interfaces and decouple the parts of the application appropriately.

- we still need to identify those core concepts which need to be exposed
- we need to refactor the corresponding data types to resolve cross dependencies to the implementation
- then we could think about moving those data types into an _official Lumiera interface_

Support Library
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There is a huge collection of generic building blocks, re-used more or less frequently.
The're written in a generic way, but in accordance to the rest of the source base, relying only
on the general error handling and logging framework used within Lumiera. (Some facilities may depend
on other parts of the Application; this can be qualified as a bug -- please complain when you've found
something of that sort).




