On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Stéphane Ducasse
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
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>> Am 20.03.2012 um 09:23 schrieb Pavel Krivanek:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to ask you on your opinion about time scale of some big
>>> repackaging steps. At start we talk about issue 5520
>>> (http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5520#makechanges)
>>> that should rename Morphic package to Morphic-Base. The reason to do
>>> it is to prepare Morphic and MorphicTests packages for the next
>>> reorganization, namely to separate Morphic-Core package(s) with
>>> content of the uMorphic image (the minimal morphic image with only the
>>> most basic subset of the Morphic).
>>>
>>> The question is if we want to do it now or wait on the verson 1.5. At
>>> start it is only the reorganization of packages that should not change
>>> any behavior of the system. On the other hand, we may expect that it
>>> will bring some sort-term problems.
>>>
>> This question is almost easy to answer. There are no things that do not 
>> produce side effects. So this is a no go in 1.4. But it can also mean that 
>> 1.4 needs to be shipped soon. Or just open 1.5 before 1.4 is shipped. But 
>> that might to be too much work for Marcus et. al.
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> We did that in the past.
> Now we should get all tests green for 1.4.
> After only we should open 1.5 else… the fun will take over
>

To say now that we only need to make to two tests green is like to say
in late 19th century that we need to solve only two little problems:
black body radiation and Michelson's experiment ;-)

-- Pavel

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>> Norbert
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