[squeak-dev] [ANN] The Path Tools Framework

Michael Perscheid michaelperscheid at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 24 09:40:57 UTC 2014


Hi Tansel,

it is hard to estimate the concrete effort for porting these tools to other Smalltalk dialects. 
The framework has several dependencies to other libraries, tools, and makes extensive 
use of meta-programming. I think as closer the dialect is to Squeak as easier it should be. 
Nevertheless, all concepts and ideas are independent of Squeak/Smalltalk and can also 
be adapted to other OOP languages. That means, there should be no showstopper that 
prevents Path tools to work in another environment. For example, a current master thesis 
of our group deals with porting these tools to Eclipse/Java on the basis of a common 
meta-model and it works very well.

Best regards,
Michael

On 23.02.2014, at 23:56, Tansel Ersavas <tansel at tansel.org> wrote:

> Congratulations, It looks like a major advancement to software development process!
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> How difficult would it be to convert to other dialects?
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> Tansel
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> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:42 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> So I can ‘nur’ programs at last? Fabulous; I really could have done with that ability last week...
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> "Today's subliminal thought is:"
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