[Modules] Images vs. module safety

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Mon Aug 20 14:31:50 UTC 2001


I explain Envy this way...it is a tools that was designed to be a shared
version control system, not a modular system.  And, in that role, it has
served quite well (and c'mon it's not that hard).  However, I think we
should expect much more, and yet so much less, of a good modular system.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Bob Arning
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 4:36 PM
> To: Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com; 
> modsqueak at bluefish.se; squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [Modules] Images vs. module safety
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:52:38 -0700 Allen Wirfs-Brock 
> <Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com> wrote:
> >Nobody wants a Smalltalk system where it was hard to create or
> >change code? If somebody built it, nobody would use it.
> 
> How, then, can we explain ENVY?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> 





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