+1 sad for genie ;( may be now with the new event handler if should be esaier to plug
> Hi Lawson. Nebraska was removed intentionally from Pharo. Basically, because > we want a clean, tested and working core. >> >> ANY package that we don't consider core, should be removed and loadable. I >> mean, if you want to use Nebraska, perfect, no problem. But you should load >> it by yourself from squeaksource or whatever. In the core (actually, we >> still trying) we put ONLY core code. In the PharoDev we put mostly Core + >> Dev tools or examples. >> We don't believe Nebraska should be neither in PharoDev in my opinion. Of >> course, if people think the opposite, we can include it. >> >> Regardless the above said, I am not sure Nebraska is working on Pharo. I >> invite you to try to load it, ask for help, and tell us the results. Then >> you can create a Metacello configuration for it and make it easy to manage >> and install. > > So of course this idea of "just load it" is very difficult (impossible) to > realize if the software in question was just hacked and put code everywere in > the base system.... > I think after Nebraska was removed, we cleaned up the rendering of handmorph, > for example. Nebraska complicates a far too complex Morphic system a bit. > > In general, nebraska is one of the examples (others are eToys and Genie), > that where *very cool experiments*, but where the last important step was > never done: > to learn from them and than build abstractions in the base system to make > these things implementable in a nice way. > > I know that it's sad. And some people I am sure will think this is the wrong > way to go. But we felt that cutting out complexity especially regarding > things that are > not used is important if we want to move forward. > > Marcus > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
