so, concerning the new editor changes, I would like to help because this
messy situation is partly my fault.
would it be helpful if I rename current TextEditor as TextEditor2, (give
me another name please ...),
current SmalltalkEditor as SmalltalkEditor2 and reintroduce the previous
implementation
for TextEditor and SmalltalkEditor ?
Cheers
Alain
Le 10/12/2010 00:32, Lukas Renggli a écrit :
I said it before: just give the variable a different name. For example,
textStyle. That would solve all loading problems.
I said it before: This doesn't solve anything at all. In fact it is
much easier to remove the variable and fork the code. Renaming causes
a ripple effect to lots of methods and makes it impossible to merge
the forks in the future.
The style variable is just one example of the problem. I am suggesting
that the next time the editor framework is replaced the old code is
left untouched, then deprecated, and different class names are chosen
for the new implementation. Like this both frameworks can coexist for
a while making it much easier to migrate the code.
The current situation comes from the fact that some existing classes
changed their class layout and API completely making migration really
difficult.
Lukas
