On 30 January 2011 20:30, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure what is the current status in this area. Could anyone provide > an idea of what is the desired solution? >
The idea is to get rid of ToolSet references and replace all patterns like ToolSet default foo with Smalltalk tools foo or even more extreme, leave only a message send and get rid of using globals, because it is early binding: self toolset foo where #toolset implemented in Object with ^ Smalltalt tools. The answer of 'Smalltalk tools' should be a tool registry instance. The tool registry is a system-wide object where packages can register their tools. I don't remember all of the details, but the idea, when i implemented it was following: - you registering your tool(s) by sending: Smalltalk tools addTool: myTool verb: #myTool and then you can send messages to registry directly using #myTool selector: Smalltalk tools myTool So, there will be no hardcoded set of tools in a system and therefore no need for having a class, like ToolSet, which implements a protocol for 'standard' toolset. I imagine in stripped down images, some tools can be non-existing, but some still could be there. Making tools pluggable will improve modularity. > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 28 Jan 2011, at 19:35, Igor Stasenko wrote: > >> On 28 January 2011 19:20, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> yes, check the archives. I opened tickes for that. and I sent several mails. >>> Seems no-one has time to do it. >>> >> we discussed that today. >> probably i will take care about it for 1.3.. not sure how soon it will >> be but i will :) >> >>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1915 >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Stéphane Ducasse >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Because it would be good that it uses a registration mechanism. >>>> Hardcoding the classes of the tools is not optimal for example for the new >>>> Finder. >>>> >>>> Stef >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Igor Stasenko AKA sig. >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "In a world where everything is moving ever faster, > one might have better chances to win by moving slower." > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
