On Sun, 25 May 2003, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
Having support for real package in the image is not really difficult but the browser is so much a pain that it will hamper any move. Nathanael and alex for the traits and the classboxes had to fix, patch, this gory browser, Markus also for his ideas. What we are planning to do here is to build our own browser where they could plug what they need for their research. I will check what is the plan but it should be still in our current plans. First we want to fix the core (compiler, changes notification, classOrganization).
Yes, I think this is the most important. Once there is a clean Browser sitting on top of clean changes notification and clean class notification, it will be much much easier to do experiments with packages of all kinds.
Meanwhile I'm continuing to hack away at some 80% solutions. Most of the work I'm doing on Monticello doesn't really care how packages or even code declarations are specified, it's just concerned with the versioning aspects - so although I am providing a declarative package system of sorts, it would be possible to switch to something like Ginsu at a later point if that seemed worthwhile.