[squeak-dev] Re: Speech Klatt package on SqueakSource
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Nov 17 06:07:28 UTC 2009
David T. Lewis wrote:
>> * FFI-SharedPools
>> * FFI-Kernel
>> * FFI-Tests
>> * FFI-Examples
>
> Good, if you can make this change and make it available on a repository, then
> I'll update the MCConfiguration for VMMaker to pull in the FFI-SharedPools.
> Bert suggested the same naming convention for Speech-SharedPools, so I
> can update the Speech packaging if that is the preference.
Done. I've actually named the package FFI-Pools (shorter and to the
point); I don't think that naming matters as long as you can figure out
what it likely contains.
>> The structure makes a lot of sense and I could even imaging moving the
>> plugin here (i.e., into FFI-Plugin).
>
> I have a slight bias, motivated primarily by personal laziness, toward
> the original Squeak categories that would lead to e.g.
>
> VMConstruction-Interpreter/ObjectMemory
> VMConstruction-Plugins/FFIPlugin
> VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin/OSProcessPlugin
>
> But either convention would be fine. Long term I think that VMMaker should
> be repackaged into smaller pieces, and I have a hard time improving on the
> category names that were used back in Squeak 2.4.
I have no particular preference either way. The laziness is traded in my
view by making sure you actually know how to find the prerequisites,
i.e., you won't be able to load VMMaker if you don't know where to find
the FFI pools but that should be fair game if you don't care about the
FFI. Or more to the point Speech. I'm sure there are people out there
who don't care about the Klatt plugin and forcing them to go onto a hunt
for this or that prerequisite seems pointless unless they care. But
then, given that I just went through the process of installing all the
bits I can see your point about laziness :)
Cheers,
- Andreas
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