Well well well >> Good but what is your point? > > Compatibility and simplicity.
do you want to tie us with strings on the temple of compatibility? We do not want that. We are sorry but we do not want to lose what we designed as it is what we need/want, just because squeak has a worse solution that you call compatible and simple. >> That Setting is a cool framework. We knew it alreaady :) > > That's where you're confused. You keep talking about "cool" and I keep > talking about "simple". These two are not the same yet you keep confusing > them. You know me and my english sometimes I'm easily confused. > If we want to have a certain amount of compatibility between Squeak and Pharo > the defining property needs to be simplicity, not coolness. I don't care > about the Settings framework, after having looked at it I find it difficult > to understand and to follow. Too much "coolness" if you will and a lack of > simplicity. But that's my opinion. If you think Settings is cool, use it. thanks for your permission. > I'm still interested in compatibility though, and as a consequence, I think > we should agree on some basics. It's unlikely that anyone is going to > implement the entire Pharo Settings framework in Squeak, so instead I'm > giving you a trivial implementation of Squeak's preference annotation, along > the way making a point about simplicity. yes but what can we do with it? Since it does not fit our needs. >> That we could get other preferences than the ones we have? We also knew it >> but we decided >> to go for a no argument pragma. So I'm a little bit confused but what you >> try to tell us. > > I'm not trying to "tell" you anything. I'm presenting to you the option to be > compatible with Squeak regarding simple preferences by giving you an > implementation for Pharo. It seems to me that this is the best way to ensure > a level of compatibility. It's your choice to take it or leave it. > > Cheers, > - Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > 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
