[Alternative browser] Yes, that sounds cool. I think one good long term goal for such a browser would be that it is possible to plug into it all of the functionality of the RB, without having to subclass it. This forces you to make quite a lot of the hooks that are needed to plug in other stuff that should be in the browser, like package management, analysis tools, and so forth.

Please let us know your plans.

Daniel

Stephane Ducasse ducasse@iam.unibe.ch wrote:

Hi all,

Just a simple point about packages. I discussed a lot with Avi and I think that while DVS is a simple start the future is to have real package and not only hack around the categories. Avi agrees on that. I discussed recently also with joseph and he said that Ginsu is free (I should send him a license). What would be good is to have a group of people discussing/cooperating to create this asset. May be this is already in place (sorry for not knowing it).

So there is still a gap between having definitions in the image (like in Ginsu) and only definitions in the exchange files but having definitions is important. We should have a way to see in the file that we declare a new Class, Pool what ever. We could have then multiple run-times if people want and we could load code without installing it. So imagine what we could do.

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). However, this means that we could take into account that other entities such as packages could be used there too.

Stef

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