Scott Wallace wrote:

> I'd be interested in hearing feedback on this naive but expedient little hack.
> Should it go into the image?  It does not deal with any potentially awkward
> issues, it just brings code in, rather than rejecting it, so that you can
> start working with it from within Squeak.
> 
> Or would this be too much of an affront to the integrity of the Modules
> system?  Or does anyone care anymore?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The current block was not in the
initial module system. It was only added after SqC people complained about
the super-strange things that happened when it would just silently swallow
outdated code!!

Memorably, members of SqC got some bugs which they absolutely couldn't
understand why they happened. (The code relied on hacking deep down into the
old handling of global variables. Gee I wonder why that would fail now.)

Plus there were updates released that corrupted the system, to which I had
to release update patches.

But by all means go ahead and release it (and then wait X months for the
proposed anti-patch to surface again). As you said, noone probably cares any
more anyway. Out of the dozens of people who promised to contribute, 0
(zero) have made good on what they said then. I don't even think the last
set of important fixes that I sent out was ever released as updates. But I
too do not care.

Henrik