Re: [Pharo-dev] Availability of Smallapack in Pharo6.0

[Stéphane Ducasse via Pharo-dev]

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> Hi Denis,
> OK, but hiding is troubling...
> When I came from VW, I found that Squeak categories matching package names 
> was a quick and dirty hack.
> Since then, I find it works remarkably well, it is somehow a declarative meta 
> information (method property), and I much prefer that to hidden package 
> classification accessible from an IDE only.

I agree :) and I told that several times in the past :)
We also lost the inplace edit and the logic sometimes is super confusing. 

> It still happens to me to loose methods in VW because they are not packaged 
> or wrongly packaged, so I'm not sure that cleaning is winning in that case.
> And if you go with multiple classifications, then there's no reason to not 
> keep the hack.

For now multiple classifications is not in our priority since our list is 
already too long. 

> 
> But I'll come back to it, tools are generally better in ph7 than ph6. Stay 
> tuned.

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