On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:48 PM, Brian T Rice wrote:
>
> SystemOrganization and such, which the Browser classes rely upon, 
> could be
> replaced or aided by more component-oriented source descriptions, much 
> as
> PackageInfo is, but probably enhanced to provide the same functionality
> style of SysOrg and such. Then, refactoring the IDE to use this
> abstraction gives an immediate genericity benefit of being able to 
> browse
> remote repositories, file-based sources (Monticello, changesets, etc.).
> Now, I can only speculate how far this could go, but that benefit right
> there seems like an immediate signal that it's worth exploring. Anyone
> who's used the remote contents browsers knows how brittle they can be:
> imagine if that kind of tool were just a modularly-added feature 
> instead
> of a special case of a larger more brittle part.

That would be very nice.  Certainly, if someone comes up with a 
specification for such an interface, I'll commit to adapting 
PackageInfo and Monticello to support it.

Avi