Partitioning the image (was Re: Shrinking sucks!)

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Mon Feb 7 10:00:42 UTC 2005


Hi!

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?st=E9phane_ducasse?= <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We have been discussing with colin about the next step for packages and 
> Alex is working on introducing a real package class (with a lot of 
> information/annotations) and he is building a new package centric 
> browser on top of OB. He will release that soon and ask for feedback 
> and help.

You know - this stuff is very, very central to Squeak. I think we want
more info now - and not later.

>   I think that having a good browser and real packages (supporting 
> comments) and supporting package renaming are the preliminary to be 
> efficient curving packages out of the image. So we are getting there.

I want us to start NOW and not wait for anything new. I want to add PIs
using updates and then register corresponding packages on SM. It seems
to me we can do that now and still move to something else later.

> Stef

regards, Göran



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