On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:00:48AM -0400, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Can we get a clear statement about what a rewrite process would look like?
Can the new author read the old method? Can someone else produce a requirements document that specifies what the method needs to do? Can someone write tests from the old method that need to pass with the new method?
I still do not understand what we are allowed to do in order to reverse engineer an unclean method.
A draft of "the rules" is at http://installer.pbwiki.org/SqueakRelicenseParty
This has not yet been reviewed. Also, a rewrite effort will not happen until July if we indeed go with spoon.
If you could, please wait until I write down the results of meeting four (which was 3 days ago, on Monday). I'm compiling a web site with all this stuff, but I've been pretty busy this week. I'll announce on squeak-dev when it's done.