On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:20:28 -0500, Doug Way <dway at mailcan.com> wrote:
> Definitely.  It's been a while since I used VW, and I remember what  
> class categories, parcels, and namespaces are, but now I'm not sure  
> about "packages".  Are "parcels" merely the binary version of  
> "packages"?  Someone refresh my memory.
>
Packages were, IIRC, introduced by StORE (I won't start about that bit,  
but it's their version system. It also sucks). You can 'parcel out'  
packages.

> But I'd say we definitely don't want to have all three orthogonal  
> concepts in Squeak -- class categories, packages and namespaces... let's  
> have two at most.
>
My gut feeling is that you're right.