> On 26 Dec 2014, at 17:42, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> + 10000
> 
> Debugging the rendering loops of Athens was such an example. In Bloc I get 
> some race conditions with MC forked process... another fun one. 
> Let people decide!!!
> 
> Doru I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN WHAT I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN!
> I WANT to DECIDE WHEN. I control my agenda and my own schedule and my list is 
> huge.

OK, I understand, but how is this different from any other radical changes that 
we did ?

When we introduced the Eye inspectors we did not offer two options at the same 
time (and I can give 10s of examples). So what is best, we all together use and 
make the best tools, or we all work with different tools ?

> Stef
>> Doru,
>> 
>> I think your intention is a good one but slightly misplaced. I really like 
>> the idea of GTInspector. It surely is a great tool and maybe I'll start to 
>> build my own inspector on my kind of things.
>> To me the difference is between "motivated to do" or "forced to do". Most of 
>> the time we are trying hard to solve our own problems. If in that progress 
>> other problems are forced upon us we get easily distracted and frustrated. 
>> The same goes for new tools. If I'm forced to use these it just means I have 
>> to deal with it first and only then I'm allowed to deal with my own problem. 
>> As it was in that special case the bug in nautilus and the new inspector 
>> made me shy away from developing something in 4.0 and now I'm back on 3.0.
>> 
>> So I think the only possibility is to "offer" a new way of doing things and 
>> give people time to adjust. 
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>>> Am 26.12.2014 um 13:18 schrieb Tudor Girba <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I think there must be a misunderstanding.
>>> 
>>> There can be a good reason for having a basic inspector around, but I think 
>>> the reason is not because people cannot choose what to use.
>>> 
>>> There is a toggle to enable/disable the GTInspector. But, even without it, 
>>> the main feature of the GTInspector is exactly to be extended the way 
>>> people want and not impose a fixed way. This is completely different from 
>>> what existed before. In fact, half a year ago there was no problem that 
>>> people could neither choose nor extend anything. In the meantime, we can 
>>> extend our workflows significantly. Adding the various flavors of browsing 
>>> objects is perhaps a couple of lines long and each of us can tweak it 
>>> because there is no higher entity that should decide anymore.
>>> 
>>> What I cannot quite grasp is that while we pride ourselves with working on 
>>> a reflective language, when we have reflective tools, we seem to not be 
>>> able to  take half an hour to build the tool that fits our needs. I am 
>>> still wondering what is needed to improve this. I think that it's a problem 
>>> of exercise or of communication, but it seems that just providing the 
>>> examples that I linked before is not enough and most people look at the 
>>> inspector still as a black box tool. I will try to work on a tutorial to 
>>> see if it gets better, but do you find the moldability proposition not 
>>> valuable or just unclear?
>>> 
>>> But, as I said, there can still be a valid reason to enable a basic 
>>> inspector that relies on a minimal of libraries (so, definitely not the 
>>> Spec one) for the same reason we have an emergency debugger.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Doru
>>>  
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 11:43 AM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I will add basicInspect in Object so that we can get access to the old 
>>> inspector.
>>> I like that people can choose their tools!
>>> I mentioned that 20 times but people do not care apparently.
>>> 
>>> Stef
>>> 
>>> Le 23/12/14 11:50, Norbert Hartl a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to get the old tools via shortcut?
>>> 
>>> I started something new with pharo 4.0 today. I discovered a bug in 
>>> Nautilus where every rename or deletion of a method raises a debugger. I 
>>> tried finding the bug but struggled because to me the new inspector is 
>>> really confusing. If I "just" want to unfold a few levels of references to 
>>> get a glimpse of the structure the new tool prevents me from doing that. 
>>> There is just to much information in this window and too much happening to 
>>> me.
>>> To me it looks like a power tool you need to get used to. So it is probably 
>>> not the best tool for simple tasks and people new to this environment might 
>>> be overwhelmed. At least I would like to be able to use the old tools.
>>> 
>>> Norbert
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>> 
>>> "Every thing has its own flow"
>> 
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