Stef, There is a part of me that wants 1.1 tomorrow<g> to get Alien and full freedom to use underscores, among other things. Briefly on $_, it came back up on squeak-dev, with the usual polarity and screams of doom due to poor aesthetics. It is and IMHO always will be a consideration of external interfacing and avoiding name collisions.
Back on topic, tests are good thing. As far as how I can help, a good starting point will be to clean up my image build process. It appears to do a good job of identifying work that I have failed to package and saving the packages I have flagged as mine. I wonder about possible problems with dependencies among packages, but can't say that I have had problems with that; for whatever reason, "cyclic dependencies" magage to terrorize every new Dolphin user at some point :) I am unclear on whether Dolphin is too pedantic, Pharo is too relaxed (and somehow manages to "clean up the messes later"), or whether I am not pushing Pharo hard enough to have problems. Regardless of the details above, I need to revise the load step of my build, and I have been hoping that Loader will appear so I can rewrite it once rather than twice. I noticed mention today that SqueakSource was down (appears ok now). Not meaning to complain about a free service, it hit me once before and I had to add complexity to my builds to work around it; I had thought about taking that out, but a local-only option appears important. I am unclear on how to do that with Metacello - any ideas? I was going to ask about Citezen and Metacello, but the SqueakSource wiki page shows instructions for it. I will try to test it soon. Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:06 PM To: Pharo Development Subject: [Pharo-project] A pause... for tests and orthogonal concerns hi guys I was discussing with pavel and I like his point. I would like to do a kind of pause and fix the tests. Improve a bit the fact that we get more tests incrementally to avoid regression. Tell what you think and think how you could help. Stef _______________________________________________ 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
