[squeak-dev] Rename ST80?

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 18:33:36 UTC 2013


Check out the "rename" function of the WorkingCopy list of the
Monticello browser.  It calls MCWorkingCopy>>#renameToBe:.

IIRC, it handles attaching the existing ancestry into the newly-named package...

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:35 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:15:07PM -0700, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> FWIW, ST80 was kind of a mystery for me for months after coming into
>> Squeak. The name suggests that it's somehow the whole system that was
>> released in 1980. I have a feeling that renaming it MVC would save some
>> confusion for newcomers.
>>
>> Is there any super compelling reason not to just rename it MVC?
>>
>
> If you rename it, you disrupt the version history in Monticello. How about
> making packages be objects, so we can document these things properly in
> the package comments?
>
> Dave
>
>


More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list