On 31 août 06, at 14:42, Brent Pinkney wrote:

>> I have the impression that aconcagua for example is circuventing some
>> limits of Brent packages...

May be you should read the paper of hernan that was published last  
year at ESUG.
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> Perhaps - no one informs me though.
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>> So having packages that are not tied to the kernel would make their
>> evolution/tests/maintenance easier. What do you think about that?
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> Nice in theory - hard in practice. The Date and Time classes are  
> heavily used
> by the IDE to update the version history and changes files.
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> So it is hard to simply file-in a replacement package. My original  
> chanset used
> all sorts of #become to file in the new classes and then swap over.


Brent
in that scenario clients of a package just use BPDate or HernanDate
but not the core ones. I was just thinking about that so this is not  
serious :).
But this was going with some thoughts of what is a core? where do we  
stop?


Stef


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