On 15.11.2009, at 16:48, David T. Lewis wrote:

> There is currently a package dependency for VMMaker that requires the
> entire Speech package (for KlattSynthesizerPlugin). This can be resolved
> through a minor refactoring of Speech, mainly to move the shared pool
> class KlattResonatorIndices into a separate package, e.g. "SharedPool-Speech".
> 
> Are there any objections to adopting the package name "SharedPool-Speech"
> for this? By implication, we might also have "SharedPool-FFI" and so forth.
> 
> If no objections, I'll make a SqueakSource project for Speech, starting
> with the Speech-md.9.mcz from Squeak 3.9a, and updating it as described.
> With that in place, VMMaker will be loadable with just the shared pool
> prerequisite, rather than the entire Speech package.
> 
> No flame wars please, just speak up if there is a good reason that I
> should *not* do this.
> 
> Thanks!

Wouldn't it make more sense to have packages named "Speech-Shared" and "Speech-Plugin" containing the shared pool and the plugin, respectively? That would go along well with the 8 or so other Speech categories.

Trying to have Speech as a single package is futile anyway since as you suggested it needs to be broken up.

- Bert -