Re: re: Flow integration
[email protected] (Cees de Groot)
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Craig Latta <[email protected]> said: >1. Change some of the original class names ("Stream" becomes >"OldStream", etc.) Without my giving any qualification whatsoever on the qualities of Flow, I think I have to agree with Andreas. Why not leave Stream and introduce a FlowStream (or FlwStream, whatever)? People can then have both in the image and the market can decide whether Flow is really better. In a year or so, when Flow has proven itself, you can then remove the old code from the image; and when Squeak finally has namespacing, you can remove these ugly prefixes. Talking to the outside world is one of the most important things; with all the great Squeak software that I see lying around but that only works under 2.x, I think that going through great lengths to provide compatibility for old code is extremely important. If that means that the new stuff has to revert to not-so-nice class names (b/c that is basically the only real issue here, if I understood it right), I think that's the way to go. -- Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com <[email protected]> GnuPG 1024D/E0989E8B 0016 F679 F38D 5946 4ECD 1986 F303 937F E098 9E8B Cogito ergo evigilo