Re: How to partition an application

hi

have a look at my video and also the chapter on monticello in the  
lectures support.
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Videos/
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Teaching/CoursAnnecy/0506-M1-OOP/ 
OOPAvance.pdf

On 25 août 06, at 16:34, andy.burnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am slowly moving along with my Wget app - thanks to the help from  
> this list.
>
> However I now need to understand how to 'package' my app so that it  
> is most useful to other people.  It seems as though there are 3  
> things I could do:
>
> 1. Add code to the HttpClient and Httpsocket (possibly moving some  
> of the instance code to the class side)
> 2. Subclass the two classes
> 3. Leave them exactly as they are and put all the code in my new  
> Wget class.
>
> It seems to me that putting it all into the Wget object would make  
> it easiest for people to use it, but perhaps it makes it harder for  
> people to reuse the code elsewhere, i.e. some of the 'helper'  
> methods might be useful in a number of different situations -  
> nothing to do with Wget.  Subclassing the other objects seems  
> simple, but - presumably - if everyone were to share their work  
> this way we would end up with many many different versions of the  
> basic classes (perhaps that would be a good thing but it could also  
> be confusing). Finally, changing the basic objects keeps the class  
> hierarchy clean, but I imagine most people wouldn't want to have  
> someone else's code messing around with their classes.
>
> So...  what is the best way to develop Squeak code so that other  
> people can use it?
>
> Cheers
> AB
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