[Pharo-project] [Seaside] Re: [Metacello] What is the plan with Pharo changes?

[Dale Henrichs]

SystemChangeNotification is used in the tests...The tests (obviously) do a whole lot of loading and unloading of packages and suppressing change notifications during some tests has a significant impact on how long it takes to run the tests ...

The solution for me is to add some code to the platform packages to hide SystemChangeNotification and use my own variant of silentlyDo: ...

The real sticky problem is with FileDirectory...

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <stephane.ducasse at inria.fr>
| To: Pharo-project at lists.gforge.inria.fr
| Cc: "Seaside - general discussion" <seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>, metacello at googlegroups.com
| Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2012 5:01:48 AM
| Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [Seaside] Re: [Metacello] What is the plan with	Pharo changes?
| 
| 
| On Aug 4, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
| 
| > Hi all. I am answering to all together:
| > 
| > Stef: Yes, I imported and loaded the Pier of DBX website in Pharo
| > 2.0 with seaside and magritte. With 5 minutes of opening debuggers
| > and change things I was able to correctly make it work (at least,
| > my app, I didn't run all tests to see).
| > 
| > Dale: We don't want to just help you with "hacks", that why I send
| > this email and several others, to see what others think so that
| > can find better and non-hacky solutions. So, let's try to find
| > good solutions:
| > 
| > 1) does it help if we put back FildeDirectory and we remove it
| > later ? so that you have time to update Metacello and that we can
| > still use Metacello :)
| > 2) for the SystemChangeNotifier does it make sense to delegate to
| > the closures?  [ xx ] valueWithoutSystemNotifications.  Or we add
| > a #doSilently: and we add  a MetacelloPharo20Platform that
| > overrides the behavior.
| 
| I do not understand why metacello is concerned about
| systemChangeNotification.
| 
| 
| > 3) as Janko said, what about improving/using Grease/Sport for this
| > purpose? do they provide something for this? could this be added?
| > 4) Should we integrate Metacello in the image with our changes
| > until you have time and find a good solution that works
| > everywhere? Maybe if we do 1) it is not very necessary.
| > 
| > Thanks for considering this a friendly and positive thread.
| > 
| > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Janko Mivšek
| > <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
| > Hi Dale,
| > 
| > Dne 04. 08. 2012 07:31, piše Dale Henrichs:
| > 
| > > The bigger problem is that I have to have a code base that runs
| > > on multiple platforms while being maintainable, so a "port" to
| > > Pharo-2.0 is only a starting point. In the case of FileTree,
| > > which is the real bottleneck there's a lot code that is written
| > > against the FileDirectory API, so there will need to be
| > > significant work to find a way to keep a common code base .... a
| > > much tougher problem, than "just getting it working", it can be
| > > solved with time, but I didn't budget time for an emergency
| > > rewrite of FileTree ... today.
| > 
| > Just FYI, there is a Sport portability library and by using Sport's
| > SpFilename you have an instantly portable file support over quite a
| > dozen Smalltalks. So, if someone adapt Sport to a new Pharo 2.0
| > filesystem first ..
| > 
| > Best regards
| > Janko
| > 
| > 
| > --
| > Janko Mivšek
| > Aida/Web
| > Smalltalk Web Application Server
| > http://www.aidaweb.si
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| > 
| > 
| > 
| > --
| > Mariano
| > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
| > 
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