[squeak-dev] DeltaStreams at ESUG in Brest

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Mon Sep 7 16:00:19 UTC 2009


Hi Igor,

Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> It is great to know DeltaStreams keeps advancing!
>>
>> I didn't have much time to understand the dependencies yet. I just want to
>> say that I want to support DeltaStreams in Cuis.
>>
>> I guess I'd need to work on ToolBuilder, but I think it is a good addition
>> to Cuis.
>>
>>     
> The ToolBuilder is a bare-bone tool which allow us to build a UI in
> declarative style, without
> specific knowledge, what exactly framework will be used to preset it to user.
> If you having something different in mind (like making own UI-building
> tool) , it could be done pretty easily ;)
>
>   

No, I know ToolBuilder since quite long.

> Our main design point for DeltaStreams that it _should_ be useful even
> without any UI, and it should be possible to at least file-in or
> file-out DS. So, Deltas is targeted for a very constrained
> environments.
>
> But then, of course, if you have a UI, you , as developer, could do a
> lot more using deltas..  :)
>   

I want to use DS to replace change sets. So I need the traditional gui: 
Change Lists, Change Sorters, etc, or something similar to them.

>> I need to study a bit SystemEditor and the SystemChangeNotification. Not
>> sure if I'll want to load that code (I really need to check it), but in any
>> case I'm willing to make easonable alternatives to work in Cuis to support
>> DeltaStreams.
>>
>>     
> To work properly , delta needs to hook in to some places of system ,
> in order to be able to record all events related to changes.
> It is not really relevant , in what way it hooking up, what is
> relevant is to be able to nicely capture all things the developer
> doing.
> Thus, you can provide own layer for capturing system editing events
> and deltas will happily use it.

I know.

Thanks,
Juan Vuletich



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