Stef, Just to clarify, I would like to see category become categories, and to have those free for my use vs. being hijacked by the packaging sytem. Colin replied favorably to my email; it sounds as though he has a similar idea cooking, and I gave him a few things to ponder in response. I will leave it to his discretion, but perhaps we should post those emails here. A few mentions of slices in various replies suggest that I need to take another look at them. Please trust me when I say that Dolphin's ability to apply multiple method categories is a VERY useful feature. You would not regret adding that capability to Pharo. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bschwab@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029
stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 10/9/2008 9:32 AM >>> Good to know I really want to get rid of category too.
Stef On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:56:44AM -0400, Bill Schwab wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Please do not feel attacked in any way by this, but you have beautifully illustrated my point: I am not asking to put method in multiple *packages*, I am asking to free categories to do
what they *should* do, which is tag methods in ways I find useful. PackageInfo (not to denigrate it), has completely hijacked the concept - actually, the Squeak community failed to add state to allow it to operate independently of categories.
Ok. It sounds kind of like how Craig changed this in Spoon. He got rid of Catogories altogether. In spoon, there are modules, which are a collection of methods. Attached to each method is a number of tags. One usually wants to browse by tags, but one can browse by modules too.
I really wish I could try out Dolphin and VW and see what I am missing, but they don't run on linux.
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