but do we want all grease?

Stef

On Jun 17, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Michael Roberts wrote:

> I'm missing something. Why do we need to adopt the (copy of) methods and not 
> just adopt the package as lukas said? I thought we wanted core to get smaller 
> over time and better modularised anyway? We would just need to track a stable 
> version rather than maintaining our own branch. Surely it is worse to copy 
> the methods renamed or not but put them in a pharo specific package?
> 
> 
> Cheers mike
> 
> On 17 Jun 2010, at 14:14, Julian Fitzell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 2010/6/17 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>>> 
>>> - If included with Pharo I suggest to rename all the methods,
>>> otherwise we will run into big troubles with Seaside and other
>>> projects that depend on Grease.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From a philosophical standpoint, I *hate* that. this means that as a
>>> plattform, we can not
>>> grow and improve our libraris anymore?
>>> Shouldn't be the goal that useful extensions gets adopted by the core?
>> 
>> We will need to find a way to allow platforms to adopt Grease methods
>> - I do think this is the end goal. It's a bit of a nightmare from our
>> point of view because we end up having to have different Grease
>> versions for different versions of the platforms, but isn't that sort
>> of unavoidable in the long run anyway? Part of the reason that's so
>> awful is simply due to the lack of good branching and management tools
>> in our version control systems...
>> 
>> Julian
>> 
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