[Modules] mailing list and activities

PhiHo Hoang phiho.hoang at rogers.com
Sun Jun 16 17:23:32 UTC 2002


I wrote:

>> you're welcome to read the archives and join us there.

>	Where is 'there' :-)


	http://lists.advantive.com/listinfo/sqmodules 


> I sent a request to subscribe to sqmodules at lists.advantive.com and am
waiting for approval.

	Wrong, that's for posting to the list (and it's moderated).


	it's good to know that 'modules' is still alive.

	Cheers,

	PhiHo.

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Daniel,


> you're welcome to read the archives and join us there.

	Where is 'there' :-)

> So anyone seriously interested in module, and not minding the smoke,
> sparks and rough edges of really raw code is invited to join.

	I sent a request to subscribe to sqmodules at lists.advantive.com
and am waiting for approval.

	Thanks for your efforts.

	Cheers,

	PhiHo.


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Subject: [Modules] mailing list and activities


For those who got to wondering about that strange quietness in module
land -

About a week ago I tried to compile a shopping list of stuff we still
need to make modules. I mailed some people that had shown some sort of
interest. Anyway, this became a fast and furious discussion, that became
a mailing list at sqmodules at lists.advantive.com, courtesy of Stephen
Pair.

I thought this was a good time to announce it here, because some people
were asking questions. So anyone seriously interested in module, and not
minding the smoke, sparks and rough edges of really raw code is invited
to join.

A bit about what's going on -
Andreas Raab has convinced us that it'd be better to move to strong
modules now, mostly in order to simplify the code and the mental model
of how things should work. This requires some major changes to the tool
set, and he's just released a first version of a module aware browser.
This includes nice support for automatically keeping track of
dependencies.

Stephen Pair and I thought up a nice and simple way of passing around
the names of modules for people to load - just make it a Url. Select
something like loadmodule:/People/dvf/GraphAlgorithms in any text pane,
bring up the menu, url-it, and that's it, you have a module. I'll post
that here soon.

Stephen Pair's selectors spaces are also a hot topic of discussion, and
he's been refining the ideas and working out an implementation, to help
round out modules later. 

If you want more detail, and especially if you're already working on
modules (CraigL, Torge,you there?) you're welcome to read the archives
and join us there. Note that traffic's been somewhat heavy lately.

Of course whenever something's ready for prime time, things will be
presented here. 

The original reason for the separate discussion was that modules were
not popular and not easily popularized. When modules become a little
more mainstream, the discussion should probably return to squeak-dev.

Daniel





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