Hi, all.

Should all be fixed in Trunk now. Load it like this:

Installer ss
project: 'MetacelloRepository';
addPackage: 'ConfigurationOfRefactoringTools';
install.
(Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfRefactoringTools) project load: '2.0'.

The #stable symbolic version will work only after the release because Metacello matches "alpha" versions to previous versions. So 'squeak5.3.x' and 'squeak5.2.x' will match to "Squeak5.3alpha". .... -.-"

Best,
Marcel
Am 03.09.2019 06:56:26 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:


> On 2019-09-02, at 8:31 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> As a general point I'd like to throw down a (small) marker for the idea of incorporating the Refactoring tools in the standard image. We make a big deal of the importance of refactoring code and the way that Smalltalk's tools help do that, but quite a few important refactoring actions are pretty tricky in the standard tools. I'd argue that the integration of the refactoring tools (the menus particularly) could be improved, but still.
>
> Even though I love and use the refactoring tools for development, they bring too much "weight" to the image and IDE for new and general, non-developer users. In particular, it adds quite a few extra menu entries which are of only interest to developers doing development. It's 10X easier for a developer to load the package than for a anyone to unload. -1

I have considerable sympathy for your view, really. I suspect - based on a fairly quick scan of the code, nothing more - that quite a lot could be removed by integrating better into the core of Squeak. There seem to be plenty of classes duplicating extant functionality, at a guess as part of making the code fit many systems. And the integration into the browser menus is, frankly, horrible. Then again, there are *already* way too many poorly thought out menu entries in the browsers. I wish we had the resources to provide the refactoring assistance in a cleaner, better integrated, manner

tim
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