Hi Scott and all!
Scott Wallace scott.wallace@squeakland.org wrote:
At 8:38 AM -0700 9/24/02, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
...Walkback in current image: "You can't add Modules at the top level".
{sigh}
Hmm, the original posting hasn't reached me yet, but anyway.
[SNIP of true observations]
I'd be interested in hearing feedback on this naive but expedient little hack. Should it go into the image? It does not deal with any potentially awkward issues, it just brings code in, rather than rejecting it, so that you can start working with it from within Squeak.
Sure. IMHO, go for it. 3.3a is *alpha* so hey, fix it - that's what alpha is for... :-)
Or would this be too much of an affront to the integrity of the Modules system? Or does anyone care anymore?
Nope, I don't think it would and yes, I care for Modules - but see no problem with improving it! And since it is alpha mistakes are ok - we can always fix it while we go forward.
We all know development on Modules stopped before it was really userfriendly (and no shame on Henrik, he did a lot of work but there was too little support from the rest of us - and that is noones fault) but it's still IMHO pretty solid code - it just need to get finished! :-)
There was a flurry of activity with Andreas carrying the flag but lately it got very silent. Personally I try to spend my time on SqueakMap for 3.2 and when that is "done" in some sense I intend to start looking at 3.3 more closely - I believe there are a whole bunch of .cs floating around for Modules that need to get integrated.
Cheers,
-- Scott
Cheers, Göran