On 30 January 2011 20:30, Tudor Girba <tudor.girba@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure what is the current status in this area. Could anyone provide an idea of what is the desired solution?
The idea is to get rid of ToolSet references and replace all patterns like ToolSet default foo with Smalltalk tools foo or even more extreme, leave only a message send and get rid of using globals, because it is early binding: self toolset foo where #toolset implemented in Object with ^ Smalltalt tools. The answer of 'Smalltalk tools' should be a tool registry instance. The tool registry is a system-wide object where packages can register their tools. I don't remember all of the details, but the idea, when i implemented it was following: - you registering your tool(s) by sending: Smalltalk tools addTool: myTool verb: #myTool and then you can send messages to registry directly using #myTool selector: Smalltalk tools myTool So, there will be no hardcoded set of tools in a system and therefore no need for having a class, like ToolSet, which implements a protocol for 'standard' toolset. I imagine in stripped down images, some tools can be non-existing, but some still could be there. Making tools pluggable will improve modularity.
Cheers, Doru
On 28 Jan 2011, at 19:35, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 28 January 2011 19:20, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, check the archives. I opened tickes for that. and I sent several mails. Seems no-one has time to do it.
we discussed that today. probably i will take care about it for 1.3.. not sure how soon it will be but i will :)
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1915
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Because it would be good that it uses a registration mechanism. Hardcoding the classes of the tools is not optimal for example for the new Finder.
Stef
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