[Modules] mailing list and activities

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Sun Jun 16 17:43:47 UTC 2002


Hmm, sorry about that. To join, see

http://lists.advantive.com/listinfo/sqmodules

Daniel

PhiHo Hoang <phiho.hoang at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> 
> > you're welcome to read the archives and join us there. 
> 
> 	Where is 'there' :-)
> 
> > So anyone seriously interested in module, and not minding the smoke, 
> > sparks and rough edges of really raw code is invited to join.
> 
> 	I sent a request to subscribe to sqmodules at lists.advantive.com
> and am waiting for approval.
> 
> 	Thanks for your efforts.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	PhiHo.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
> danielv at netvision.net.il
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:31 PM
> To: squeakfoundation at lists.squeakfoundation.org;
> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [Modules] mailing list and activities
> 
> 
> For those who got to wondering about that strange quietness in module
> land -
> 
> About a week ago I tried to compile a shopping list of stuff we still
> need to make modules. I mailed some people that had shown some sort of
> interest. Anyway, this became a fast and furious discussion, that became
> a mailing list at sqmodules at lists.advantive.com, courtesy of Stephen
> Pair.
> 
> I thought this was a good time to announce it here, because some people
> were asking questions. So anyone seriously interested in module, and not
> minding the smoke, sparks and rough edges of really raw code is invited
> to join.
> 
> A bit about what's going on -
> Andreas Raab has convinced us that it'd be better to move to strong
> modules now, mostly in order to simplify the code and the mental model
> of how things should work. This requires some major changes to the tool
> set, and he's just released a first version of a module aware browser.
> This includes nice support for automatically keeping track of
> dependencies.
> 
> Stephen Pair and I thought up a nice and simple way of passing around
> the names of modules for people to load - just make it a Url. Select
> something like loadmodule:/People/dvf/GraphAlgorithms in any text pane,
> bring up the menu, url-it, and that's it, you have a module. I'll post
> that here soon.
> 
> Stephen Pair's selectors spaces are also a hot topic of discussion, and
> he's been refining the ideas and working out an implementation, to help
> round out modules later. 
> 
> If you want more detail, and especially if you're already working on
> modules (CraigL, Torge,you there?) you're welcome to read the archives
> and join us there. Note that traffic's been somewhat heavy lately.
> 
> Of course whenever something's ready for prime time, things will be
> presented here. 
> 
> The original reason for the separate discussion was that modules were
> not popular and not easily popularized. When modules become a little
> more mainstream, the discussion should probably return to squeak-dev.
> 
> Daniel



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