This week we discussed two listener emails:

I am fairly new to both Smalltalk and VisualWorks and one of the most confusing aspects for me is, when should I use:

namespaces
packages
bundles
class category
parcels

I think it would be very valuable if you could have a podcast which could shed some light on the best practices for using these mechanisms. I also read in the VW programmers guide that the use of namespaces is discouraged because there is a new module system.

Are parcels just a runtime deployment artifact for packages? What's the relationship between the category defined on a class, namespace and package?

And another one on Seaside scaling. We'll probably get more into depth on that topic after Michael runs some of the tests he mentioned on the podcast.

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