What are the plans to integrate TxText?
- Igor is taking clients one by one and improving txText. We got a
new syntax hilighter.
- Then I want to replace the workspace by a TxWorkspace.
- After for athens we should rewrite all the drawOn: methods.
- We were waiting to get integration based on configurations to
include it and now this is ready.
so soon we will have
- TxText inside Pharo
-
Now I know that GTools have been used in Moose for a long time, but
its integration to Pharo REPLACING Workspace has been a cultural shock
to those that haven't used it before (myself included, though I'm
lookign forward to adapting). I think there'll be similar culture
shock when Pharo 4 is released, from those that don't follow the
bleeding edge. I'd strongly suggest that GTools operate for ONE
release alongside existing tools, as an additional item in the first
level World menu next to 'Workspace'.
I said the same to doru :).
Indeed, even if Playground is quite stable through long use in Moose,
it is new to Pharo, and marking its menu entry as 'Experimental' for
now might provide some benefits.
* This may provide a to stress test new evolving frameworks like
TxText & Rubric - without affecting existing tools.
* Now Playground has a wider community exposure, feedback from new
users is likely to be less pressure and less negative if they still
have access to old tools.
* Feedback may result in changes.
* Reduced culture shock. Builds confidence in a stable system not
going "too fast" but just "fast enough" (very subjective I know).
