Squeak core dev is now like every other open source project! (was Re: [squeak-dev] [Cuis] Cuis)

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 18:40:32 UTC 2010


2010/1/24 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, keith wrote:
>
>>>
>>> If you are a *developer* of Squeak itself, follow trunk, propose
>>> changes to Inbox, and perhaps become a committer to trunk yourself
>>> after enough good patches.
>>>
>>> THIS IS THE SAME MODEL AS EVERY OTHER SUCCESSFUL OPEN SOURCE PROJECT.
>>
>>
>> Do you recall that in the last 10 years there was discovered such a thing
>> as Extreme Programming. This is a different model to what you are using.
>>
>>> Keith continues to make it into something it isn't.  We're doing
>>> *what works*.
>>
>>
>> May I point out again that it doesn't work for me. My patches to trunk
>> would be fixes for Monticello. These fixes would break trunk, therefore it
>> doesn't work as you suppose.
>
> So these are not patches to trunk.
>

And besides, MC CAN be updated using MC.
We already having a lot of entry points for these:
 - use SomeClass>>initialize
 - use image startup/shutdown phases
 - use package script

Keith, you can look how we managed to replace compiled methods trailer
handling without need
of using .cs, but just loading a set of MC packages.


>
> Levente
>
>>
>> Keith


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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