Working together (some ideas)

Jarvis, Robert P. Jarvisb at timken.com
Mon Jul 26 11:49:03 UTC 1999


Is your source code management stuff available somewhere?

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alan Lovejoy [SMTP:sourcery at pacbell.net]
> Sent:	Sunday, July 25, 1999 5:00 PM
> To:	Hans-Martin Mosner; squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	re: Re: Working together (some ideas)
> 
> > ** Original Sender: Hans-Martin Mosner <hm.mosner at cityweb.de>
> >
> > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> > <html>
> > Ivan Tomek wrote:
> > <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Doesn't a stack-based&nbsp; model like Collage
> presume
> > a sequential form of
> > <br>development? The earlier discussion dealt with parallel and
> > <br>independent developments. How would the Collage model deal with
> > <br>this?
> > <p>Ivan</blockquote>
> > The stack-based model tries to mimic the sequential form, without making
> > independent development difficult. One idea of Collage is that the stack
> > can be reorganized at any time, making the system behave as if the
> different
> > layers were filed in in another order.
> > <br>I think that the main problem with non-intersecting application
> approaches
> > such as ENVY is that they make 'patches' quite difficult to develop and
> > maintain if you're not the owner of the application to be patched. In
> the
> > highly delocalized culture of Squeak, where people from all corners
> contribute
> > interesting things (which are often not in a production-quality state),
> > this is simply unfeasible.
> 
> Exactly so.  This is why the source code management system I've developed
> permits methods and classes to belong to any number of modules.
> 
> --Alan
> 





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