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

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue May 4 15:10:44 UTC 2010


Well, we talked about this before but have no concrete plan quite yet - some packages should be bundled with (and considered to part of) the release. They would not have to be downloaded from the network.

- Bert -

On 04.05.2010, at 07:54, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> 
> 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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