Hi Folks,

The first part of the MorphicSplitters project is basically PackgeInfo, i.e. 
reclassification of stuff. Very little methods were actually modified, and 
they sould not generate any problems.

But if we wait until 4.1 to get the work in, we'll have to re-check any 
Morphic or Etoys stuff that is modified during that time. This is especially 
true for any ToolBuilder stuff.

So I prefer to get this first MorphicSplitters stuff in 3.9, to serve as a 
base to other efforts, most important ToolBuilder.
At some time, MorphicSplitters will need actual refactoring to remove bad 
dependencies between BaseSqueak and CoreMorphic and between CoreMorphic and 
FullMorphic/Etoys. The first of these (BaseSqueak -> CoreMorphic) is also 
needed for ToolBuilder. So, we'll have to coordinate that work. That will be 
much easier if we start from the same base. This means, please start serious 
ToolBuilder refactoring with as much as MorphicSplitters in as possible.

Cees, Dan, do you agree?

Cheers,
Juan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cees de Groot" <cg at cdegroot.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Unofficial status report


> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:57:05 +0100, <goran.krampe at bluefish.se> wrote:
>> 4.1 = This will then be the release with the result from
>> MorphicSplitters and thus we are buying them a little bit more time. The
>> plan was to push that stuff in as the first thing and if we open the
>> alpha stream of 4.1 after release of 4.0 then that would mean... say 1st
>> august? What do the splitters say about that? Sounds doable?
>>
> Doable, yes. But the MorphicSplitters work will result in LARGE changes 
> (the .mcz files are around 2.5Mb together - we're dealing with a huge 
> chunk of code here), so putting it in 4.1 will result in a large changes 
> file needing to be distributed with all of the 4.x series...
>
>