From: danielv@netvision.net.il Date: Dim oct 6, 2002 1:01:49 am Europe/Zurich To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Refactoring Browser - new release, new home and other news. Reply-To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org

The URL for the impatient - http://modules.squeakfoundation.org/People/dvf/Packages/Refactory.st

The SqueakMap entry - http://marvin.bluefish.se:8000/sm/package/2b1e12d7-3d60-481d-975e- 3eca5a ef50b9

To open it, RefactoringBrowser openBrowser.

Welll, it's been a long time since I've released the RB, and the last release wasn't the most friendly out-of-box. A few reasons you will like this release -

• Simplified install

This release is a single 1MB .st file. Just download and filein. Or, if you have some SqueakMap based tool, like the SM Browser by Goran or my Package Loader, you can bring it up, pick the Refactoring Browser, choose to install, and you're done.

• It works

Tests are green, some basic sanity checking works on a clean 3.2 4956 image. Of course there are probably bugs hidden somewhere in there, but that I need you to help me with that.

• Lint works again

Thanks to Alexandre Bergel and Lukas Renggli, who fixed that and a few other issues in CS@ESUG, this year in Douai.

More detailed version information is at the SqueakMap page.

The release process changed quite a bit on the way to this release: I was very annoyed with maintaining the 15 (!) different files of code, by abusing changesets to keep the layers separate. Abuse your tools and you'll get sore thumbs. The world is consistent that way. Making a release was long, downloading and installing was annoying, testing it was hard and time consuming. So when things were broken, they didn't get fixed, which makes for very lousy maintenance.

Using Avi Bryant's ModuleFiler, I am able to file out the related system categories and all their class extensions to the base image with one operation, creating one file. The normal system categories and method categories keep my layering information intact and more consistent than I could with changesets.

Thanks to SqueakMap, it's now a snap to download, install and update new versions, and will soon even be easy to upload and publish new versions too.

Easy management will make for less laborious releases, and hopefully better maintenance.

So you're welcome to download, install and play with it, and please let me know of any trouble you encounter.

Daniel Vainsencher

Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes