Unofficial status report

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Apr 2 07:43:37 UTC 2005


Andreas

Would it make sense (after feedabck period) to push the ToolBuilder Api 
of SqueakSource on 3.9?

Stef

On 2 avr. 05, at 1:51, Andreas Raab wrote:

> goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>> 	- ToolBuilder (32 subscribed to ml). This project started out with a
>> bang, but the ml has been mostly silent during march. I don't think 
>> that
>> means anything in particular but I personally look forward to get
>> ToolBuilder installed as a package in Basic in the 3.9 alpha stream
>> ASAP, Brian, you hear me? :) The reasoning for that is to make the API
>> available for all of us so that we can start to program against it 
>> under
>> 3.9 which in turn is important because in later releases (4.0 or 4.1 
>> or
>> whatever) Morphic will turn into a package (MorphicSplitters) and then
>> tools that hasn't been ported to using ToolBuilder will become
>> inoperational without Morphic installed.
>
> The ToolBuilder *api* has been available on SqueakSource for quite a 
> while already. The changes Brian is working on are the places that 
> need to be fixed for ToolBuilder *integration*, e.g., using it in 
> places where we currently have hardcoded references to specific UI 
> frameworks. If you want to look at and play with the ToolBuilder API 
> all you need to load is the packages from Squeaksource (see the Wiki 
> for more information). BTW, these packages are non-intrusive; they 
> contain no modifications but only additions (we keep Brian's changes 
> separate from the core packages).
>
> Regards,
>   - Andreas
>




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