[squeak-dev] Regex (was: The Inbox: Morphic-hjh.434.mcz)

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Tue May 4 14:54:38 UTC 2010


Bert,
Yes, this is a perfect example of a package that could be bundled with
a release but not loaded by default.

So for me a load script in the 'Extending the System' workspace is
fine for now. Or you think of another way of bundeling?

--Hannes

On 5/4/10, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 04.05.2010, at 03:58, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>> Yes, that's an idea. However if I have the code snippet easily
>> available in the 'Extending the System' workspace, then that's fine
>> for me the time being.
>>
>> In fact I consider the Regex package to be a bit weak in terms of
>> functionality but I think we do not have anything more comprehensive.
>>
>> It is easy for me to install a new image, run the updates and then
>> execute a few more statements to configure the image for a particular
>> purpose.
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 5/3/10, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why isn't Regex included in the core image? It's a question I have in
>>> my mind for a while. Dealing with text in Smalltalk often results in a
>>> lot of code to write. Regular expressions are useful. Many programming
>>> languages nowadays have a Regexp engine included.
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>> --
>>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Seems to be a perfect example of a package that could be bundled with a
> release but not be loaded by default?
>
> - Bert -
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