Plustools?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Jan 17 05:07:11 UTC 2006


Cees De Groot wrote:
> Nope. PlusTools is a set of tools (browser, debugger, workspace, ...)
> that Andreas Raab whipped up as a proof of concept - proving the
> validity and possibly the completeness of ToolBuilder.

Actually, even that is somewhat incorrect. The main reason why I did 
this work was not to show completeness of ToolBuilder but rather to 
understand what steps need to be undertaken to make the current set of 
tools *unloadable* and decouple them from the rest of the system.

Obviously, this requires a bit of work and it's hard to do that work 
when you have no tools to do the work with ;-) My main reason for using 
ToolBuilder was that I might be able to reuse some of the work in Tweak 
(if I thought that to be relevant) but it really was a secondary thought 
(from my point of view there were enough examples for ToolBuilder before 
that to show its validity).

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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