[Cuis-dev] Renaming several fundamental Morph classes

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Nico,

On 1/5/2022 5:12 PM, Nicolás Papagna Maldonado via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I second Mariano's request!
>
> I don't really know what should I do to fix my packages.

See my response to Mariano's email. The Cuis update mechanism was 
designed to make it easy to follow changes. Compare, for instance, with 
.mcz non human readable files...

> Related to that, please check an email I sent a couple of days ago 
> ("[Proposal] Keep a changelog").
> I believe that would make the life of all of us who want to improve 
> Cuis a little easier when this kind of change happens.

Agreed. Anyone can volunteer to do that by following the GitHub commits 
and this email list.

Please keep in mind this is a volunteer community. Nobody pays for 
anything, and therefore nobody is a customer. Nobody charges for 
anything, and therefore nobody provides customer service. And this is a 
project aimed at Smalltalk developers and serious students. People is 
expected to be willing to study the system. If in doubt, give a read to 
README.md in the main repo, and CodeManagementInCuis.md in the 
Documentation folder.

Thanks,

> Best,
> Nico PM
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 5:09 PM Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     several packages of mine have stopped working on Cuis6 because of the
>     Morphic changes.
>
>     I cannot find the email with the final changes. Is there a list
>     with the
>     final changes somewhere?
>
>     And can I apply the renames blindly, or almost blindly? Like say,
>     replace all mentions of WidgetMorph in my files with BoxedMorph,
>     etc, etc.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Mariano
>
>     El 21/12/21 a las 16:02, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev escribió:
>     > Hi Folks,
>     >
>     > It has become apparent that some class names I chose some time
>     ago are
>     > not meaningful enough. The most confusing is the meaning I
>     assumed for
>     > "Widget". Decades ago, Widget meant "UI element in some
>     library". Today
>     > it means "Anything the user can interact with". So, I want to do the
>     > following renames:
>     >
>     > MovableMorph    -> MorphicWidget
>     > WidgetMorph      -> GUIControlMorph
>     > KernelMorph       -> SpecialMorph
>     > WorldMorph        -> MorphicWorld
>     > PasteUpMorph   -> PlaygroundMorph
>     >
>     > I hope these convey meaning more effectively.
>     >
>     > There will be impact on some packages. I have changesets ready to be
>     > applied for all packages in repos in the Cuis-Smalltalk
>     organization.
>     >
>     > Before applying all this:
>     > Do you like the new names? Do you know better ones to suggest?
>     > Any other thoughts?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>
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>
> Nicolás Papagna


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