[Seaside] Gemstone / Magritte

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 16:34:22 UTC 2007


2007/8/7, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemstone.com>:
> James is correct that in many cases you can override methods with no ill
> effects, but in the case of the class-side #description method we'd have
> to make some changes in the base GemStone code to avoid problems
> (Monticello also uses #description and would get confused if
> #description were overridden).
>
> At this point, I would say you count on us changing the infrastructure
> to eliminate the problem.

There is actually a chance that #description gets renamed in Magritte.
The conensus is that #description is too general and often used for
despritive texts.

Cheers
Philippe

> >2007/8/7, James Foster <Smalltalk at jgfoster.net>:
> >
> >
> >> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> >> 2007/8/7, i p <cappadonza at hotmail.com>:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hey i'm currently building an app using the Magritte framework in squeak.
> >>eventually i want to use Gemstone for persitance. Any know how easy or
> >>difficult it would be to migrate it Gemstone
> >>
> >> Magritte's #description might conflict with Gemstone.
> >>
> >> A number of additional features have been added to GemStone/S in order to
> >>make migration from Squeak as easy as possible. For example, GS/S now
> >>supports the underscore character for assignment. More importantly (for
> >>Philippe's concern), each VM may load its own base class overrides and
> >>additions. Thus, if some class has a #description method whose behavior is
> >>different from the base image, you may load a Monticello package that
> >>provides the new behavior. Given that Magritte is already available on two
> >>dialects (Squeak and VisualWorks), it seems that porting it to GS/S would
> >>not be a major difficulty. Given that GS/S can import from Monticello, it
> >>ought to be reasonably easy to find out.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Magritte creates a #description method in Object on the instance and
> >on the class side.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Philippe
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