On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > IMHO we should also check senders in Pharo and Pharo Web. Pharo core in
> itself is nothing. Pharo is the platform for other tools. We have the dev
> and web image. We should take care about the packages that are loadable in
> Pharo. I am not saying not to remove the method, but at least, to check in
> dev and web images and if there are senders, send an email to the
> developers/maintainers notifying about this change. Even if the messages
> shouldn't be part of the API. With this we avoid possible DNU at runtime.
> Not all the external packages covers a good percent of tested code in their
> unit tests.
> >
>
> Yes... but there is really stuff that nobody needs.
>
> For the other, we should just put removals on the bugtracker and  make sure
> that we check with the main image before removal...
>
>
+1


> In general, I hope to revisit the idea of supporting software evolution in
> the language... see e.g. the paper
> http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?query=Nier08b&display=abstract for some
> thoughts of what is needed.
>
>        Marcus
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