----- Original Message ----- | From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> | To: "Pharo Development List" <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> | Cc: "Moose-related development" <moose-...@iam.unibe.ch>, "Any question about pharo is welcome" | <pharo-us...@lists.pharo.org> | Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:48:27 PM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] [Moose-dev] Re: [ann] snapshotcello | | | On Jul 23, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Dale K. Henrichs | <dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote: | | > Stef, | > | > I haven't completely wrapped my brain around what SnapshotCello | > does so I don't have an informed opinion ... the fact that you | > found a need to invent SnapshotCello does speak volumes to the | > fact that there is a need that is going unmet:). | > | > However, I don't like the fact that you end up sending a non-spec | > message to make this work (#populateSpec:with:). Tools like | > Versioner will not be able to rewrite a method like this correctly | > so it is a less than satisfactory workaround to the method literal | > limit. | | Indeed. May be in the future we could recreate a simple compliant | spec driven method by interpreting the | existing configuration trees but this requires some work.
Absolutely and it would be work that I'd be willing to do ... From that perspective SnapshotCello is a very good spec for what you and the Moose team need. Dale
