Another Morphic question
karl.ramberg at chello.se
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Mon Dec 20 20:50:12 UTC 2004
Michael Latta <lattam at mac.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. This brings up some things about Squeak I find
> disturbing.
>
> 1) Why was the reference not in the class comments? If you are going
> to have external documentation, at least reference it from the source.
True.
> 2) The referenced page talks about this working in 2.9. Has it been
> touched since then?
Not much, Dan Ingalls did some fixes a looong time ago.
> 3) Should something this old really be part of the current release
> without someone updating the docs, and possibly commenting the classes?
It's part of a experiment and it's quite cool. But it's not maintained
and there are quite a few bugs and quirks. The hard thing with pulling
stuff like this out is that it's attached quite deep into the
core of morphic.
> There is so much "stuff" in Squeak that are examples, experiments, and
> are not currently in use, it is very hard to identify the parts that
> are really current or of interest. Yet another vote for a small kernel
> and then identified packages that can be loaded.
>
But Squeak is also like a old attic where you find you great
grandfathers
wooden leg and a map to treasure island :-)
Karl
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