what would be good is to have a small discussion on the key and  
minimal features that could be added to Announcements,
add some tests and code.

Stef
On Oct 31, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> Levente
>
> what I would really love :)
> is if you could provide some extensions to the new version based on
> your experience.
> I think that Announcements are a bit limited right now. Then the core
> would be enhanced and we
> could clarified the license.
>
> Stef
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just to make things clear, AXAnnouncements
>> - is not "a port of the original announcement implementation"
>> - is (more or less) based on Vassili Bykov's blog
>>  
>> (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/vbykov/blogView?searchCategory=Announcements%20Framework
>> )
>>  just like the Announcements package in Pharo
>> - is released under the MIT license 
>> (http://www.squeaksource.com/AXAnnouncements.html
>> ).
>> We implemented the framework as the blog entries came out and
>> integrated
>> it into our rudimentary ajax framework (that's where the AX prefix
>> came
>> from). Later we abandoned the ajax framework but found announcements
>> really useful (especially with seaside components), so we extracted
>> the
>> code and moved it to squeaksource. Our ajax framework demo was
>> available
>> at http://axdemo.seasidehosting.st/.
>>
>> For a quick comparison: AXAnnouncements is bloated and has lower code
>> quality than Announcements, but it implements more features, like
>> suspension and interception of announcements, weak subscriptions and
>> allows different base class for the announcements hierarchy per
>> announcer.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Levente
>>
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