2013/2/26 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar@gmail.com>:
On 26 February 2013 20:07, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:
There is no magic if as a programmer we do not define the dependencies we cannot do anything. ;) so we should define configurationOf and we will take real advantages of them.
Nowadays with CI and all sorts of stuff we're (Pharo _and_ Squeak, I mean) in a much better place. There's still the modularity aspect to worry about in the general case, but CI can still help out a bit there, flushing out incompatible monkey patches.
But the thing still is how to manage the dependencies without screwing the whole image. And so far, as Stephane said, the ConfigurationOf* is the only "safe" (and viable?) way to do it. Dependency management is not a simple problem, but succeeding at it would be a key differentiator. Regards,