[UPDATES] - two more for 2.7alpha

David N. Smith (IBM) dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Tue Dec 7 20:46:34 UTC 1999


At 23:20 -0800 12/6/99, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>1697europeUpdate-tkMF -- Ted Kaehler -- 6 December 1999
>Installs an option to seek updates on a European server.  This is 
>the mirror site that Bert F. maintains.  It has been there for quite 
>a while, but now it's a simple click to update from it if you get 
>poor access from the pair of US servers.
>
>1698SqkEnvts1Tweaks-DI -- Dan Ingalls -- 6 December 1999
>Several tweaks needed to make
>	Environment reorganizeEverything
>work in the 2.7alpha image.  Plus...
>Makes FillInTheBlankMorphs erase their image promptly after 
>dismissal, rather than lingering until the next screen update.
>Makes the debugger display the full error message in the debug.log file.
>
>*** Test Pilots note:
>Feel free (after making a backup) to try out
>	Environment reorganizeEverything
>A surprizing number of things seem to work.  I would greatly 
>appreciate any comments, suggestions, bug fixes and the like over 
>the next day or two when I won't be getting any work done.  I will 
>then incorporate these when I pick things up again to attach 
>environments to projects.

Dan:

I got brave, loaded all of the last few days changes into my alpha 
image, and saved it. Things seem to work.

I then evaluated the magical expression (above).

It turns out that category names cannot be the same as existing 
classes. (My code that transfers applications from IBM Smalltalk does 
this on purpose.) If they are, the conversion code gets the class 
instead of a new subenvironment name. Once I fixed those, each time 
starting from a freshly reloaded image, it converted OK.

After some renames, the magic expression completed.

Then I went to an existing project and tried to run some code but 
class names in that project are undefined. If I try to evaluate an 
expression, the class cannot be found and if I try to click on the 
name in a previously opened browser I get continuous walkbacks.

I presume that happens because it's not quite all there yet? or am I 
missing something obvious?

Dave
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