[updates] 4 more; mostly whiplash

O'NEEL Bruce beoneel at bluewin.ch
Fri Feb 1 15:07:25 UTC 2002


Thanks to Henrik this is now up at 

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.3alpha.

cheers

bruce

Dan Ingalls writes:
 > Folks -
 > 
 > I've just posted 4 more updates, but they are mostly repairs for my having missed some important input from the harvesters.
 > 
 > 	- Dan
 > -----------------------
 > 4727initLeftMargin-ls -- Lex Spoon -- 14 January 2002
 > Make sure leftMargin gets initialized in CharacterScanner; this bug was brought out recently when Scamper is showing a page with indentation, and the mouse is waved over an indented line."
 > 
 > 4728includesIdentity-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 30 January 2002
 > Fixes up one missed reference to References in the module work."
 > 
 > 4729existenceOfPath-cmm -- Chris Muller, Scott Wallace -- 25 January 2002
 > The crux of this update is Chris's fix to FileDirectory>>assureExistanceOfPath:, which did not previously account for platform-specific differences in case-sensitivity, causing it to take a path of logic that quickly leads to a primitive failure on Win32 machine (attempting to create a directory that already exists).
 > The 'existance' misspelling is corrected to 'existence' and the other method name with the same misspelling is also fixed, as of course are all senders."
 > 
 > 4730FixUpdateGlitches-di -- Dan Ingalls -- 30 January 2002
 > In merging the various submissions from harvesters, I omitted several useful tweaks and reviewed decisions.  This update attempts to set them straight, with apologies to Scott Wallace for my oversights.
 > In particular,
 >   Restored the solution of 4728includesIdentity 
 >   4272InitLeftMargin supplants CharacterBlockScannerFix (simpler, more general)
 >   ShrinkWrapObjectsTool withdrawn until we can find a way to avoid jerkiness.
 >   Retracted 4705 and 4707.
 >   Improved wording of Brace explanation in 4714.
 > 
 > 

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