2018-05-14 14:44 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr>:
For ByteArray, I didn't check recently in Pharo, but I know that it's
quite a mess in Squeak because some methods are in Alien, other in FFI, other in base Squeak...
IMO all methods should be in core Squeak/Pharo because of general usage (like decoding binary data).
I want to move the methods from FFI to the base since years⦠I was told that this is impossible to ever happen because it is not important to do changes like that.
Marcus
Hi Marcus, we all know that those un-important and not-so-much-rewarding changes makes a big difference at the end. like commenting classes, classifying methods, deprecating duplicates, reducing package inter-dependencies, etc... I thought that the defenders of statu quo had two reasons in mind: - the will to keep a FFI-less (locked-in) image - the fear to loose backward compatibility But's it the past, now you are free :)