Thanks for the advice about Spec2.
I was keen to try Class-diff out, so I fired up Pharo, followed the
installation instructions with no problems, and then tried the
example.
The example got a run-time error, and I expect that it's because the
Pharo release I fired up was Pharo 9.
Which release(s) of Pharo is Class-diff intended to work with?
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 23:38, Hern��n Morales Durand
<hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your nice feedback Richard, I will sketch something and see how it goes.
About learning Spec2, for me, the best resource is to directly use the image examples. In the main menu, you have "Help -> Spec 2 demo" and "Help -> Spec 2 examples". And you also have the book in https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates
Hern��n
El mar, 23 jul 2024 a las 10:30, Richard O'Keefe (<raoknz@gmail.com>) escribi��:
That's a very nice tool. There are two tweaks I'd like to see.
Two classes having methods with the same *name* isn't the same as two
classes having the same *method*.
When the two classes have a method with the same name, there are at
least three possibilities:
- The methods are the same method
- The methods are different, but the name is defined in some common
superclass, so they had better be related methods.
- The methods are completely unrelated, like #next in ReadStream and LIFOQueue.
The third case applies to every method. Perhaps the best way
therefore is to show
something in the header, like
(score) diff of descendants of <nearest common superclass>
<column> <column>
The first and second cases are the ones I want to tell apart so that I
don't spend any time looking
for differences that aren't there.
What's the best way to learn how to use Spec2?
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 18:58, Hern��n Morales Durand
<hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Pharo community,
I am happy to present a new tool designed specifically for comparing classes in Pharo. It provides a two-sided list of methods, so you can quickly understand the relationships between two classes.
The project location is on GitHub:
https://github.com/hernanmd/class-diff
Feel free to send comments and contributions via PRs.
Have a great day,
Hern��n