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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