[UPDATES] 27 for Squeak3.7beta

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Apr 28 14:16:06 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 28 April 2004 6:15 am, Frank Shearar wrote:
> Yes, note the lack of Monticello in that list.
>
> As 5880's preamble says, "To avoid having to pull in Monticello for now,
> this first strips down the existing PackageInfo to a bare class (so as to
> not obsolete existing instances and references), and then loads the package
> as if for the first time from SqueakMap."
>
> Monticello depends on PackageInfo so when the image installs 5880
> Monticello stops working and the update fails. (MCWorkingCopy>>package
> calls
> "PackageInfo named: name" which causes the MNU.)

I think if it's going to install stuff from SqueakMap, perhaps the stub 
PackageInfo should also be there.

So 5880 could be just a preamble:

if Monticello is not installed
	then first load the PackageInfo stub from SqueakMap

load the real PackageInfo from SqueakMap

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