[squeak-dev] Rename ST80?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Jul 26 20:35:43 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:15:07PM -0700, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> FWIW, ST80 was kind of a mystery for me for months after coming into
> Squeak. The name suggests that it's somehow the whole system that was
> released in 1980. I have a feeling that renaming it MVC would save some
> confusion for newcomers.
> 
> Is there any super compelling reason not to just rename it MVC?
> 

If you rename it, you disrupt the version history in Monticello. How about
making packages be objects, so we can document these things properly in
the package comments?

Dave



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