[squeak-dev] The Inbox: GraphicsExternal-cbc.2.mcz

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Apr 21 18:44:29 UTC 2017


On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:58 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The class comment of ExternalScreen explains the intent:
>>
>>   "I represent a DisplayScreen that is not part of the Squeak universe.
>>   Subclasses must implement the appropriate primitives for creating,
>>   destroying and allocating the appropriate external objects."
>>
>> Currently these classes, and any associated methods elsewhere in the
>> image,
>> are in category "Etoys-Squeakland-Graphics-External".
>>
>> So a first guess would be that they should be in "Graphics-External", but
>> that does not work because it is a subset of the existing "Graphics". So
>> instead it might be "External-Graphics". But there will probably be other
>> things that we will see as "external" to the "Squeak universe", so I
>> would propose this:
>>
>> The package name on source.squeak.org should be "External". The class
>> categories for these external graphics classes and methods should
>> be "External-Graphics".
>>
>
> +1.  But what about the project name?  i.e. we have trunk, inbox etc.
> Where would External-Foo go in that constellation?
>

Why not in trunk? The code was in trunk before ... I'd rather do that than
have an "attic" repo.

- Bert -
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