OB Package

> From: David Röthlisberger <[hidden email]>
> Date: August 26, 2009 12:01:54 PM CEDT
> To: Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]>
> Cc: Oscar Nierstrasz <[hidden email]>, Lukas Renggli <[hidden email]
> >, Alexandre Bergel <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: PBE and OB
>
> Hi,
>
> Lukas and me made it possible to load both versions of OmniBrowser  
> into the same image, the OB version of Colin and my OB version  
> providing the package browser.
> As we said we duplicated the package browser OB packages to be able  
> to have both versions of OB in the same image. That solution is not  
> too nice, but in the short-term it should be fair enough until we  
> have real package support and can thus make the package browser more  
> efficient.
>
> To load the OB package browser packages, you need to load all  
> packages from this repo:
> http://www.squeaksource.com/EnhancedOB/
>
> You can then choose between OBSystemBrowser, O2SystemBrowser and  
> O2PackageBrowser.
>
> If you find any problems, let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
>> Excellent and thanks a lot you two.
>> When you see that squeak is now doing all the same than us this is  
>> really important.
>> I really appreciate your effort.
>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:36 AM, David Röthlisberger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the package browser is again loadable also in latest Pharo by  
>>> executing 'ScriptLoader loadOBAlpha'.
>>> This will load all required packages of OB as the package browser  
>>> needs it. This means that there will be a slighly different OB  
>>> code base in the image than what has been provided by Lukas' OB  
>>> version.
>>> This also means that right now we can not use both browsers  
>>> (Lukas' category- and my package based) at the same time.
>>> Lukas and me will work on making this possible on Monday.
>>>
>>> But note that you can use the system (category-based) and the  
>>> package browser based on the OB code base I maintained at the same  
>>> time; I think that's already good. I don't expect Lukas' version  
>>> of the system browser to be much faster.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Excellent!
>>>> I will continue to work on the package rewrite and like that for  
>>>> 1.1 we should have something.
>>>> Stef
>>>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Oscar Nierstrasz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Stef,
>>>>>
>>>>> I discussed with Lukas and David this morning.
>>>>>
>>>>> David will work this week (today?) to make sure that OB-
>>>>> ENhancements can be loaded.
>>>>>
>>>>> Next week Monday, David and Lukas will sit together to create a  
>>>>> separate (renamed) package of David's OB, so the two browsers  
>>>>> can live in the same image, and the user can switch between  
>>>>> them.  (Lukas estimates just an hour or so of work -- optimism  
>>>>> wins, I guess ;-)  We can then include version this in the pharo-
>>>>> dev image and in the PBE image.  I will adapt the book to make  
>>>>> it clear that the user can switch between them.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is purely a stop-gap measure, as we eventually replace both  
>>>>> by a fast package browser (I guess) in the coming months.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sound ok to you?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> - on
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 17, 2009, at 17:05, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes now for pharo 1.0 it would be great if we could have
>>>>>>   fast lukas browser
>>>>>>   slow package browser
>>>>>>   all in the same image.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> can you check that with david?
>>>>>> We do not care for speed now.
>>>>>> and I will continue to work on the package but having a smooth  
>>>>>> integration/migration  with/from the packageInfo
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ________________________________
>>> Mit freundlichen Grüssen
>>> David Röthlisberger
>>> Doktorand Software Composition Group, IAM
>>> Universität Bern
>
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> ________________________________
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen
> David Röthlisberger
> Doktorand Software Composition Group, IAM
> Universität Bern