[Setools] Gjallar: extracting features

[Ron Teitelbaum]

Hi Marcus,

Could you explain these comments?  I really don't understand.  I have not
used the omni browser, but I find the package browser to be very useful.  I
use Monticello to organize my code so having the package centric view makes
sense to me.  I use Package as a starting point and the Hierarchy mostly
when I find what I need.

What are you major concerns with Package Browser?  What part seems like a
hack to you?  How does Omni deal with those issues?

Thank you, I'm very interested in your thoughts,

Ron Teitelbaum

> From: Marcus Denker
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:09
> 
> 
> On 09.02.2007, at 09:23, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
> 
> >
> >>
> >> And, sadly, this obsession with Package Browsers has gotten worse in
> >> 3.9 because you can't even make Hierarchy Browser the default
> >> anymore!
> >> Its really boggling at how difficult it is to simply focus on the
> >> *class-model* instead of always just the package-organization..  So I
> >> usually find 3.8 better for groking code (at least until I get
> >> time to
> >> fix up 3.9)..
> >>
> 
> The package browser is a *extremely* bad hack that sadly seduces a lot
> of poeple to use it (e.g. Croquet once was shipped with an opened
> packagebrowser...).
> It should have been removed years ago. We should have removed it in 3.9.
> 
> Do *never* use it. Maybe you set the package browser to be the
> default one? there
> is a menu item in the window menu of the browser to select a new
> default one.
> 
> I would suggest, like Adrian, to have a look at OmniBrowser... after
> using it for
> some time, you don't want to go back. And it is *extensible* and
> *documented*
> (soon: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/cgi-bin/scgbib.cgi/abstract=yes?
> Berg07b)
> 
> Our students are using it with great success for all their new tools
> and experiments.
> 
> 	Marcus