Working together (some ideas)

Alan Lovejoy sourcery at pacbell.net
Sun Jul 25 20:59:51 UTC 1999


> ** Original Sender: Hans-Martin Mosner <hm.mosner at cityweb.de>
>
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> Ivan Tomek wrote:
> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Doesn't a stack-based&nbsp; model like Collage presume
> a sequential form of
> <br>development? The earlier discussion dealt with parallel and
> <br>independent developments. How would the Collage model deal with
> <br>this?
> <p>Ivan</blockquote>
> The stack-based model tries to mimic the sequential form, without making
> independent development difficult. One idea of Collage is that the stack
> can be reorganized at any time, making the system behave as if the different
> layers were filed in in another order.
> <br>I think that the main problem with non-intersecting application approaches
> such as ENVY is that they make 'patches' quite difficult to develop and
> maintain if you're not the owner of the application to be patched. In the
> highly delocalized culture of Squeak, where people from all corners contribute
> interesting things (which are often not in a production-quality state),
> this is simply unfeasible.

Exactly so.  This is why the source code management system I've developed
permits methods and classes to belong to any number of modules.

--Alan





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