On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:33 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> I would like to move Chronology from 'Kernel-Chronology' to a new package
> called 'Chronology', and move 'KernelTests-Chronology' to a new package
> called 'Tests-Chronology'.
>
> Rationale:
>
> - Chronology is a large package that is functionally separable from the
> rest of the things in Kernel.

It's not that big.  It includes Date and Time, which are part of base
Smalltalk-80.  How you going to extricate those from Chronology?

> - I have a UTC based variation of Chronology that addresses a number of
> issues that I think may be of long term benefit, and that prevent the kinds
> of issues that we are currently seeing in trunk. I would like to offer this
> for review in the inbox, but that is not practical with the current
> packaging.

Chronology has proved its usefulness in a wide variety of
applications.  I have no issues with it.  What issues are you
attempting to address with your UTC based variation?

> Would anyone object to this change to package structure?

I really think Date and Time and possibly even DateAndTime are part of
Kernel Smalltalk-80.  I think it would be nice to know what it is
you're really trying to accomplish with your UTC variation..

Incidentally, if you do go down this road, the standard that most
packages following these days are hierarchical names; Chronology-Core
and Chronology-Tests.