Stef, Just to clarify, I would like to see category become categories, and to have those free for my use vs. being hijacked by the packaging sytem.
Colin replied favorably to my email; it sounds as though he has a similar idea cooking, and I gave him a few things to ponder in response. I will leave it to his discretion, but perhaps we should post those emails here. A few mentions of slices in various replies suggest that I need to take another look at them. Please trust me when I say that Dolphin's ability to apply multiple method categories is a VERY useful feature. You would not regret adding that capability to Pharo. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2008 9:32 AM >>> Good to know I really want to get rid of category too. Stef On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Matthew Fulmer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:56:44AM -0400, Bill Schwab wrote: >> Thanks for the reply. Please do not feel attacked in any way by >> this, >> but you have beautifully illustrated my point: I am not asking to put >> method in multiple *packages*, I am asking to free categories to do >> what >> they *should* do, which is tag methods in ways I find useful. >> PackageInfo (not to denigrate it), has completely hijacked the >> concept - >> actually, the Squeak community failed to add state to allow it to >> operate independently of categories. > > Ok. It sounds kind of like how Craig changed this in Spoon. He > got rid of Catogories altogether. In spoon, there are modules, > which are a collection of methods. Attached to each method is a > number of tags. One usually wants to browse by tags, but one can > browse by modules too. > > I really wish I could try out Dolphin and VW and see what I am > missing, but they don't run on linux. > > -- > Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
