Modules Team progress report
Dan Ingalls
Dan at SqueakLand.org
Wed Mar 16 19:14:04 UTC 2005
The first couple of weeks have been spent assembling various relevant perspectives. These are pretty well summarized on our Swiki page,
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5608
There has been a fair amount of discussion that overlaps the topic of packages, but this has been useful, as it creates a context of desirable features for a module system. This is because one possible interpretation of the term "module" is that it is essentially the run-time manifestation of a package.
There are other interpretations that run more in the direction of Squeak projects, security and distributed computing.
I would say that we have reached a plateau in data gathering, and it is time now to focus on our intentions.
In the next couple of weeks we will partition this space of possible interpretations, enumerate a corresponding set of projects, and make some decisions regarding how best to proceed with implementation. This will be the topic of our next report.
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