[squeak-dev] Services?

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Aug 10 13:21:07 UTC 2009




On 8/9/09 5:02 AM, "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Folks -
> 
> I was looking through the trunk image to find potential unload
> candidates when I stumbled over the "Services" category. Am I mistaken
> or are services just not used anywhere? I was looking for any class refs
> etc. but it seems that all of this is self-referential and ultimately
> there is only WorldMenuProvider (which is mostly duplication of
> WorldMenu functionality) and BrowserProvider (which are just a few menus).
> 
> What am I missing? What are services good for? Where are they used?
> Where should they be used? What is the motivation for including them in
> the base image?
> 
> Thanks for any insights.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas


Services lets you add logic for dealing with external files and is useful ,
but always I vote for downloading packages if later you could load again.


Edgar






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