[squeak-dev] Rename ST80?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jul 26 23:14:59 UTC 2013
On 26.07.2013, at 21:35, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 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
In theory it should work fine to "adopt" the latest ST80 package as the parent of the new MVC package. We might want to test that first though ..,
- Bert -
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