[GOODIE] Namespaces-gk

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Thu Apr 15 21:23:23 UTC 2004


Hi!

Alexandre Bergel <bergel at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Let's start a discussion from a fresh new thread :-)
> I think that Roel asked the right question concerning your goal. And I think that what you have done satisfy one of your requirement regarding name clashes. I like your solution from this perspective. One good point is that Namespaces are transparent to the user.

Yes.
 
> However, I do not believe that it facilitates the deployment (your third goal). On some point you need to have some meta information related to installation (and perhaps uninstallation, it depends of your goal actually). This means that a package system would still be needed. This is the choice of VisualWorks.


You know - I am leaning towards simply letting Avi handle that
department. :) IMHO he (and others developing Monticello/PI) have
something really good there.
 
> Recently we had some really crazy discussion about deployment of package. And we did not find any simple and easy solution for deploying a system written in a language were namespaces and package are orthogonal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexandre
> 
> PS: I did not get what is your second goal. 

Ehm, right now I am going to bed - and I don't remember either. :)

regards, Göran



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