Modularity again
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 9 05:38:03 UTC 2006
> I mean that Spoon doesn't untangle the current mess of behavior.
> Yes, it provides tools that might help with that. Yes, it provides
> tools for dealing with modules once they have been separated from
> the mess. These are excellent things.
>
> So far, though, nobody has used those tools to do any untangling.
> Note also that Dean's proposed path, which I've quoted above,
> doesn't involve any rewriting or refactoring, only unloading. So I
> think Andreas is right. A modularization strategy that involves
> Spoon is a fine idea, as long as it also includes the kind of ugly
> grunt work that Andreas, Pavel, Edgar and others have been doing to
> disentangle the mess.
I think that this is Craig implied :)
And it should be the focus of the next version of Squeak (at least I
would like to invest time in that).
Stef
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