Hi Eliot,
> > I'm on this vital industry for 45+ years and I already learned
> > that words and names have usages and except when standarized via
> > certains bodies aimed specifically the meaning can vary even
> > within the same realm of the art.
> > That written, and without attempting to start a semantic
> > discussion, however feeling a contribution may be useful, I would
> > say that the 'levels' one and two described above would better
> > called "modules" instead of plugins.
> > In my way of understanding this non mother tongue "compile time
> > plugins" seem to be more a figure of speech than the offering of
> > 'plugability' which plugins offer, or perhaps, in my humble
> > perception ought to offer.
> > Also, I think it would be less surprising for most people when
> > exposed to the subject (module == compiling, plugin == run time).
> +1. I think the system designers agreed with you because the way to
> find out what plugins are available is
> Smalltalk listLoadedModules
>
Thank you Eliot!
You'll not believe the number of times I typed and backtyped about
listLoadedModules!
I keep thinking if I was not being too 'pushy' on my stance. . . :-)
If after a serene consideration of the group and finding that would be
right direction for Pharo, we can consider breaking this method in
two:
Smalltalk listLoadedModules
Smalltalk listLoadedPlugins
And in the future have this info exposed in the World menus.
Regards,
--
Cesar Rabak
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