Thanks for pushing this Cyril! This will let us move forward with Iceberg too :)
> El 13 ago 2019, a las 12:15, Cyril Ferlicot <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:29 PM Cyril Ferlicot <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com > <mailto:cyril.ferli...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> 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! > > Hi, > > The revert of changes of Spec 1 is now done in Pharo 8. > > Spec 1 is now in the same state than in Pharo 7 and Spec2 can live next to it. > All classes of Spec2 start with the Sp or TSp prefix. > > Have a nice day. > >> >> -- >> Cyril Ferlicot >> https://ferlicot.fr <https://ferlicot.fr/> > > > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr <https://ferlicot.fr/>
