[Cuis] Definition of Cuis parts

[H. Hirzel]

Hello Bernhard and Juan

I like this idea. And thank you for coming up with the three groups.
Good to see what is compatible with Squeak and what is not.

Two remarks come to my mind.

a) What about loading _all_ classes of Cuis into a namespace of
Squeak? And then gradually start relying on the Squeak classes?


or alternatively


b) There was an earlier attempt at loading 'SimpleMorphic' into Squeak
which was only a partial success. It did not work reliably. So the
question is not so much on the Cuis side but more on the receiving
side.

A simple test could be to do a very minimal morphic (e.g. Morphic0)
which basically just displays the desktop background (with a downsized
version of PasteUpMorph) and with a mouse click does 'go to previous
project'.

The test in Squeak from the user point of view would be menu
'Projects' -> 'New Morphic0 project', then Morphic0 is entered and by
a mouse click it would be left again.

Then in batches more classes might be added from Cuis to go towards
the full Cuis Morphic. So a second step might be a Worldmenu
(Morphic02) and a third step an emergency exit to the Morphic of
Squeak (Morphic03). A forth might be to be able to create
RectangleMorphs and move them around (Morphic04) and so on. I.e. not a
mechanic loading of the Cuis part but a batch-wise copy/paste and
versioning exercise.

To summarize point b)
I think the fact that Squeak now has name spaces does not make a big
difference in the difficulties which arise for the integration. The
challenge is to find a good sequence of integration steps.


Kind regards
--Hannes


On 1/19/13, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> Now that Squeak supports Environments I thought a little bit what it would
> take to load Cuis' Morphic and STE in Squeak. The minimum would be to define
> three logical parts of Cuis:
> 1. Core: needed by Morphic & STE, but reasonably compatible with Squeak
> 2. Morphic: Morphic itself, needed by Morphic & STE, but quite incompatible
> with Squeak
> 3. Other (Applications, Tools, System, Support, Tests): neither needed by
> Morphic nor STE
>
> If we had defined these, then we would need to "just" file out the Morphic
> part and STE and file it in in a separate Squeak environment and do some
> fairly minimal compatibility changes, right? ;-)
>
> Seriously, I looked briefly at the class categories and came up with first
> rough separation. See below. Can you have a look? Do you see any obvious
> errors? Any categories in Core which are not needed by Morphic? Any
> categories in Core which are needed but are not reasonably compatible with
> Squeak? Any categories in Morphic which are optional for STE? Any categories
> in Other which are needed by Morphic or STE?
>
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
>
> 1. Core: needed by Morphic & STE, but reasonably compatible with Squeak
> Balloon-Collections
> Collections-Abstract
> Collections-Arrayed
> Collections-Sequenceable
> Collections-SkipLists
> Collections-Streams
> Collections-Support
> Collections-Unordered
> Collections-Weak
> Compiler-Exceptions
> Compiler-Kernel
> Compiler-ParseNodes
> Compiler-Support
> Compiler-Syntax
> Kernel-Chronology
> Kernel-Classes
> Kernel-Magnitudes
> Kernel-Methods
> Kernel-Numbers
> Kernel-Objects
> Kernel-Processes
> Network-Kernel
> Package Support
> SUnit
> SUnit-Preload
>
> 2. Morphic: Morphic itself, needed by Morphic & STE, but quite incompatible
> with Squeak
> Graphics-Display Objects
> Graphics-Files
> Graphics-Files-TIFF
> Graphics-Primitives
> Graphics-Text
> Kernel-Text
> Morphic-Basic
> Morphic-Events
> Morphic-Halos
> Morphic-Kernel
> Morphic-Layouts
> Morphic-Menus
> Morphic-Support
> Morphic-Tests
> Morphic-Text Support
> Morphic-Tools
> Morphic-Views for Models
> Morphic-Widgets
> Morphic-Worlds
> Shout-Parsing
> Shout-Styling
> UCompletion
> System-Exceptions Extensions
> System-Exceptions Kernel
> System-Files
> System-Object Storage
> System-Text
> System-TextAttributes
> Theme-Core
> Theme-Tests
> Theme-Themes
>
> 3. Other (Applications, Tools, System, Support, Tests): neither needed by
> Morphic nor STE
> Compiler-Tests
> GraphicsTests-Primitives
> Kernel-Tests
> KernelTests-Numbers
> KernelTests-Processes
> LinearAlgebra
> SUnit-UI
> Signal Processing
> Sound-Scores
> Sound-Synthesis
> System-Applications
> System-Archives
> System-Code Differ
> System-Compression
> System-Object Storage-Tests
> System-Support
> System-Tests
> Taskbar-Core
> Taskbar-Tests
> Tests-Exceptions
> Tests-Files
> Tools-Browser
> Tools-Changes
> Tools-Debugger
> Tools-Explorer
> Tools-File Contents Browser
> Tools-FileList
> Tools-Inspector
> Tools-Menus
> CollectionTests
> Tests-Bugs
>
>
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