What is the goal with the Author class? I can see that the Utilities methods that used to be use to set author name and initials are being replaced with calls to Author. Also, they are deprecated in Utilities. Questions:
Author has name and initials, what will be the intended use of them?
We should not use initials. We should not use Utilities in the future.
By previous mails in the list I remember that Pharo doesn't want to use initials (like mcm, lr, avi) but full name as hinted by the message prompt in the Author requestName. But then initials will have exactly the same that name in the author class?
It should be cleaned but nobody took the time.
I can unify all the message sends to Author in the core image, also I can unify the initials and name usage, but
It would be nice :) The prompt should ask for firstname.lastname and not initials :)
I need to know the intended goal for this class.
What is the goal?
To represent metadata of the author. Probably having initial and password for monticello/ squeaksource makes sense.