[squeak-dev] Installer metacello

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Apr 30 18:08:13 UTC 2020


> On 30.04.2020, at 20:04, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
> Wait, what, who pressed that button?
> 
> Anyway - a side issue relating to this discussion. Project names and class names; hint - they don't need to be the same!
> 
> A user level class for accessing OojamwigglePlus project facilities doe NOT need to be named something utterly unguessable nor longwindedly projectname+moreverbiage.
> 
> Metacello may well be a great project etc etc but it's not the most obvious thing to lok for when you're wanting to use an installer to install some code. That might be sometihng named, ooh, maybe "installer" ?
> 
>> On 2020-04-30, at 9:55 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> On 2020-04-30, at 1:57 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
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>>> Installer has a very big advantage: its name. That name is descriptive und discoverable. We should benefit from that and evolve Installer into something we all like. :-)
> 
> This is, amongst other things, why we have HostWindow* instead of AriethffaFenestriWindowProxy etc.

If it was named Installer on GS/Pharo/Cuis too, then yes.
Otherwise, firm No.

Best regards
	-Tobias


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