On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:29 PM Cyril Ferlicot <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > This is an important update about the development of Spec. > > As you might have heard, we are working on Spec to release a new > version in Pharo 8. One goal is to unify all Pharo interfaces behind > one GUI framework and a second goal is to allow multiple back-ends > (Morphic but also GTK, Bloc, ...). To reach those goals we have been > updating the current version of Spec. We see now, however, that > updating Spec directly creates troubles with migration. For example, > we currently have a lot of deprecation warnings in Iceberg, because we > can't update it without breaking Pharo 7 compatibility. > > After some discussions between the engineers working on Spec, here is > our plan to improve the situation: We will copy all classes of Spec > and rename them with the "Sp" prefix. (We will also ensure that every > class of Spec started with the same prefix for consistency). For > extensions methods, we will rename them to have a version different > from Spec 1 (The spec from Pharo 7). Once done we will integrate this > new version in Pharo 8. From there we will wait some weeks to let > users who started to use the updated Spec change their projects to use > this new Spec2. Finally, we will revert all changes that happened on > Spec 1 and deprecate the packages. We hope this will make things > easier for everyone. > > Have a nice day!
Hi, The revert of changes of Spec 1 is now done in Pharo 8. Spec 1 is now in the same state than in Pharo 7 and Spec2 can live next to it. All classes of Spec2 start with the Sp or TSp prefix. Have a nice day. > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr -- Cyril Ferlicot https://ferlicot.fr
