----- Original Message -----
| From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr>
| To: "Pharo Development List" <pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org>
| Cc: "Moose-related development" <moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch>ch>, "Any
question about pharo is welcome"
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| 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.henrichs(a)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