Categories and Packages

Categories are used to group related Classes together in an Image.  The notion of Repositories and Packages were probably introduced to manage saving versions of code outside the Image and sharing this code easier.

I am only trying to understand the reason why Classes are grouped in Categories as well as Packages especially since by convention the Package name is the same as the Class name?

packages were added on top and use categories.
Ideally I would like to remove categories. The problme is that it is not that simple because you may have large packages
and want to structure it inside.

Stef
On May 14, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Geert Claes wrote:


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Stéphane Ducasse wrote

packages were added on top and use categories.  Ideally I would like to remove categories. The problme is that it is not that simple because you may have large packages and want to structure it inside.

I guess having packages that are that large that they need additional structure may not be a good idea though no?  Having both Categories and Packages is very confusion from a usability point of view.

On Friday, May 14, 2010, Geert Claes <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Categories are used to group related Classes together in an Image.  The
> notion of Repositories and Packages were probably introduced to manage
> saving versions of code outside the Image and sharing this code easier.
>
> I am only trying to understand the reason why Classes are grouped in
> Categories as well as Packages especially since by convention the Package
> name is the same as the Class name?

The package name is normally a prefix of the category name. The class
name has nothing to do with it.

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli wrote

> I am only trying to understand the reason why Classes are grouped in
> Categories as well as Packages especially since by convention the Package
> name is the same as the Class name?

The package name is normally a prefix of the category name. The class
name has nothing to do with it.

Sorry, that was supposed to be "... the same as the Category name" :)