[Q]Why 'browse' was removed?
ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Mar 4 21:34:34 UTC 2004
>> I remember looking at Roel's prolog code (in VW) for detecting
>> dependencies between packages and I'm pretty sure it agreed with that
>> (in fact I based PackageInfo>>browseExternalReferences on his rules).
this is fun because roel did that because we tried to load Squeak from
Store but had terrible dependencies. :)
> Yes. PI went into the base in 5250. But why it happened isn't
> important, what's important is that we recognize the error and fix it.
Still I wanted to show that we were not blind/idiot/fanatics or
evangelists.
So if somebody is in the mood of having browse in behavior send a CS
with PI information.
>> So may be I want to go too fast but why can we replace class
>> categories by first class packages?
>>
>> This is fun to see that in the realm of everything is an object we
>> are still relying on idiot string and dummy folder
>> without any behavior.
>
> We'll get there, we'll get there.
he he he......
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