To Traits Or Not To Traits (Was: Re: Stefs roadmap for 3.9, time to get it nailed down)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Feb 24 16:20:16 UTC 2005


On 24 févr. 05, at 17:10, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Thursday 24 February 2005 2:00 am, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
>> Now, I understand that maintaining Traits as a package is a hard thing
>> to do. It is typically a quite advanced "patch" to the kernel stuff in
>> Squeak. This all depends on how you guys have built it - through 
>> various
>> refactorings or through simply modifications.
>>
>> So the question remains - is Traits plausible to maintain as a 
>> package -
>> or is it not? And also of course, if it is - would you be willing?
>> Unless this is so - then this turns into a black and white choice.
>
> It may be that doing some refactorings of Minimal to allow smoother 
> loading of
> Traits would be possible.
>

the problem is that we are introducing a new hierarchy and changing a 
bit Behavior
so this forces the recompilation of the class hierarchies.

Stef
> I found that this helped with Connectors.
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
>




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