Jan, Thanks for your contribution. Actually I hadn't uploaded anything yet since I was waiting on more votes on renaming, but to push ahead I settled on SmalltalkCompatibility [1], since I think the repo can serve a wider purpose than just ANSI.
I added you to the PharoExtras team. Hopefully that works. [1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/SmalltalkCompatibility cheers -ben On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Jan Vrany <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I would rename it to SmalltalkCompatibility to ANSICompatibility >> > because "Compatibility" is a too general term and could mean >> > backward compatibility >> > of Pharo versions or compatibility to other languages as well. >> >> That was me :) I was thinking more broadly that over time the >> "repository" might hold different packages Compatibility-ANSI, >> Compatibility-VW, Compatibility-Dolphin. But maybe that is >> overreaching and its better to be more focussed. Let me know what you >> think on this and restate what you think the repository name should >> be. > > Ben, could you please give me a commit access? I intend to > move Compatibility-SmalltalkX and Compatibility-ANSI (which > I created and "maintain" for my own need). Maybe some others > may find them useful or maybe even contribute. > > Cheers, Jan > >> >> > Also see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2384 and >> > http://map.squeak.org/package/d7011055-4446-4b8e-b6da-e7e32d3389ec >> > which could be a start. >> >> I saw those, but they interact with existing classes, so I thought it >> easier to kickstart by loading in the tests first, which are all new >> classes. I only created the repository since the tests were *hard* >> to >> find eventually at >> http://www.spacmunke.org/svn/jst/trunk/src/test/ansi/ansi-compatibili >> ty/ >> So I thought it would be good make them more accessible as a >> Monticello Package. >> >> cheers -ben >> >> P.S. I don't quite follow "to SmalltalkCompatibility to >> ANSICompatibility" >> do you mean "to SmalltalkCompatibility or ANSICompatibility" ? >> >> > >> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. September 2015 um 22:53 Uhr >> > > Von: stepharo <[email protected]> >> > > An: "Pharo Development List" <[email protected]> >> > > Betreff: Re: [Pharo-dev] ANSICompatibility package >> > > >> > > We should have a SmalltalkCompatibility (not Ansi per se) package >> > > were we can add some methods to help migration. >> > > >> > > Stef >> > > >> > > >> > > Le 8/9/15 06:04, Ben Coman a écrit : >> > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jan Vrany < >> > > > [email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > Hi, >> > > > > >> > > > > is there actually such a thing like ANSICompatibility >> > > > > package? >> > > > > (it has been mentioned here lately, but I cannot find it) >> > > > > >> > > > > Thanks, Jan >> > > > > >> > > > I made it up for the purpose of discussion to see what interest >> > > > it generated. >> > > > Should we start one ? >> > > > cheers -ben >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> >> >
