If you release (an alpha) in the next day, we can test it at CampSmalltalk and maybe help along.
Daniel Vainsencher
Colin Putney cputney@wiresong.ca wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:31:47 -0500 From: Colin Putney cputney@wiresong.ca Subject: Re: Incorporating OmniBrowser (was Re: Lessons learnt from been an integrator) To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org envelope-to: danielv@localhost delivery-date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:41:26 +0300 reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
On Sep 9, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:
What I have found missing is support in the Browser. The Browser should, in my view, have teh notions of a currently active set of Packages (which should show up to be selected from when I create a new protocol) and currentPackage into which class extensions and modifications of existing classes are put by default.
Without this, I find that I forget to put my changes in to any package, or into the right package, or into a spelling error. Fortunately, the changeset keeps track of the changes that I forget ;-)
Which brings the thread very neatly back to "incorporating OmniBrowser"... Yes, browser support would be great. That seems like an obvious and easy extension to OB, once it's ready for inclusion in the image.
No, this wouldn't be hard to do, and I'll add it to my list of things to implement for the slimmed-down version. However, there is one caveat I'd like to bring up; it echoes a discussion I had with the SCG guys over on the Monticello list: I don't think modifications of existing methods should be moved into the current package by default.
See http://mail.wiresong.ca/pipermail/monticello/2004-August/000040.html for a more detailed argument in support of this position.
I should also mention that I've made quite a bit of progress in cleaning up OmniBrowser for inclusion in the image, and I should have a new alpha release fairly soon. There's still some work to do before I'd consider it ready, but it's a lot closer.
Colin