"Tests" categories
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Aug 10 10:18:36 UTC 2004
HI
just send a changeset to rename the package browser -> category
browser....
Stef
On 9 août 04, at 11:31, Kamil Kukura wrote:
>> Yes, we decided this sometime while in 3.7a. The idea is that Tests
>> are (or should be) a interesting form
>> of documentation: If you need an example, look at the test.
>
> Hmm, so in Package Browser (maybe better name would be Category
> Browser) there are now items like "Text", "Exceptions" with just Tests
> inside. To me this seems making image more messy.
>
> I was once thinking about idea to provide some kind of voting system.
> It could be a web application or it could be integrated into system
> browser. The idea is to provide for given class, protocol or method a
> voting results as what is others' opinion about destiny of specific
> item. For example, for classes/methods I was thinking about
> classification like: "basic stone of universe", "hard life without
> it", "too cool to miss", "goodie thing (go packaged)", "useful only
> sometimes (go packaged)" and so on to things being deprecated,
> obsolete, forgotten, etc. Another aspect would bear placement - it is
> "right in place", "doesn't fit well", "inappropriate position" and so
> on.
>
> However, now I see that squeak tend towards "append-only" system, so
> I'm silentely forgetting above. Maybe more anticipated thing would be
> presence of special classes (now 'class' is rather legacy world) for
> storing resources: rich texts, images, sounds, videos etc.
>
> I must admit that it takes time to convince myself just not to care
> what's in the image. Taken that the best way to deliver a good thing
> to final user is to only copy programmer's disk, makes world much
> simplier..
>
> --
> Kamil
>
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