On 25 Apr 2011, at 14:10, Dale Henrichs wrote: > Johan, > > I will be replying separately to your other email on Saturday .. . the > one below was written before I read your other email:)
OK no problem :-) > Frankly I am embarassed by the current state of the configuration construct > steps ... and I am sad that you wasted some of your time trying out something > that I knew was pretty broken... Dont worry Dale, I have spent much more time lately on things that were in a much worse state. (Eclipse comes to mind for example.) > Your feedback is very welcome and to be honest your efforts have spurred me > to focus on solving the construction problem before moving too far forward ... > > I was hoping for feedback on using the MetacelloBrowser for things not > related to creating the initial configuration, but it is obvious from your > experience (and others) creating that initial configuration is the thing that > folks are looking for when opening up the MetacelloBrowser... Yes, the first step when doing something is usually the hardest. The thing is, we often tend to forget our first steps. Maybe we are subconsciously blocking them out ;-) > In the end this is a good thing so I do appreciate your effort ... My pleasure, I appreciate you guys creating a browser for Metacello! > I know that UIs bring out the strong opinions of folks and have tried to stay > out of the ui/gui business for Metacello, but my own storng opinions won't > let me:) > > Thank you very much ... Again, my pleasure. When there is a new version out that addresses some of my concerns I will be happy to give it a spin ... -- Johan Fabry [email protected] - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
