[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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