A roadmap for 3.9

Josh Gargus schwa at fastmail.us
Tue Dec 14 16:24:50 UTC 2004


Hi Nathanael,

I'll wait, then.  Hope that your thesis moves along quickly (for both 
selfish and unselfish reasons :-)

Josh

On Dec 14, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Nathanael Schärli wrote:

> Hi Josh
>
> It's cool that you want to play with the new version of traits. 
> However,
> keep in mind that while this is much cleaner and more stable on the
> level of the kernel, the UI still lacks most of the features that are
> available in the old (prototype) version and are absolutely central for
> the real "traits experience". (Finally, it's the UI and not the
> internals you actually deal with). We hope that we can work on this 
> more
> as soon as I have my Ph.D. thesis out of the door...
>
> Cheers,
> Nathanael
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>> Behalf Of Adrian Lienhard
>> Sent: Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2004 09:40
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> Subject: Re: A roadmap for 3.9
>>
>>
>> Hi Joshua
>>
>> Traits can be loaded into a 3.7 image from SqueakMap (please see the
>> description on SqueakMap for more details). The version on
>> SqueakSource
>> can not be loaded directly because of the missing bootstrapping.
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2004, at 9:18 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Hannes.
>>>
>>> I tried to open the SqueakSource Traits repository in Monticello
>>> (http://kilana.unibe.ch:8888/Traits), and got an 'Error: this
>>> collection is empty', as #first was sent to an empty
>> 'packageList'.
>>> Choosing a different project (Chuck), I was able to open and browse
>>> the repository, as well as install the package.  This is in
>> a 3.7-full
>>> image.
>>>
>>> Is the Traits repository broken?
>>>
>>> Joshua
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:58 AM, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Josh Gargus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No!  Say it ain't so!  I was so looking forward to using Traits in
>>>>> Squeak!
>>>>
>>>> It seems to be possible nowadays. If you go to www.squeaksource.com
>>>> you see that the package has been downloaded 500 times.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps one can already install it in 3.8gamma. A test would reveal
>>>> this. May somebody can shed some light on this issue? Perhaps by
>>>> providing a test report?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ___________________
>> Adrian Lienhard
>> www.adrian-lienhard.ch
>> www.netstyle.ch
>>
>>
>
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