[Vm-dev] reorganizing opensmalltalk-vm

[Tobias Pape]

> On 28.10.2018, at 20:52, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 2018-10-28, at 12:37 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The only thing I'd like to see in Tonel is per-method timestamps a la
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>> but I know there is active opposition to this idea.
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> Why on earth is there any opposition to what appears a perfectly reasonable idea? Within, of course, the context of an idea I find rather daft, that of trying to force Smalltalk source code into a model that seems completely at odds.

I think the reasoning is that the time stamp can trivially reified from the VCS history (ie, git blame…)
The data is still there, yet no more completely tied to the code.

Best regards
	-Tobias

PS: also, the time stamp format we use up until now is not very portable (in a i18n kind of way)