Hello everyone! This is an important update about the development of Spec.
As you might have heard, we are working on Spec to release a new version in Pharo 8. One goal is to unify all Pharo interfaces behind one GUI framework and a second goal is to allow multiple back-ends (Morphic but also GTK, Bloc, ...). To reach those goals we have been updating the current version of Spec. We see now, however, that updating Spec directly creates troubles with migration. For example, we currently have a lot of deprecation warnings in Iceberg, because we can't update it without breaking Pharo 7 compatibility. After some discussions between the engineers working on Spec, here is our plan to improve the situation: We will copy all classes of Spec and rename them with the "Sp" prefix. (We will also ensure that every class of Spec started with the same prefix for consistency). For extensions methods, we will rename them to have a version different from Spec 1 (The spec from Pharo 7). Once done we will integrate this new version in Pharo 8. From there we will wait some weeks to let users who started to use the updated Spec change their projects to use this new Spec2. Finally, we will revert all changes that happened on Spec 1 and deprecate the packages. We hope this will make things easier for everyone. Have a nice day! -- Cyril Ferlicot https://ferlicot.fr
