OSProcess and 3.9 - was RE: update 6532 MNU

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Dec 17 00:29:35 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:02:50PM -0500, Stoffel, Andrew wrote:
> From: Stoffel, Andrew 
> 
> > > From: stéphane ducasse 
> > > in 3.9 the preferences to show deprecation method has been turn on so 
> > > that people can fix their code. 
> > > So this is normal 
> 
> > Okay. I'm sure that was announced somewhere and I just missed it. :-). 
> > (I would have preferred that setting that preference had been an 
> > option when going to 3.9 but it is a little bit late for that now.) 
> 
> > If I figure out OSProcess I'll pass along what I changed... 
> 
> So far... 
> 
> It looks like (In OSProcess-Base and OSPRocess-CommandShell) it uses:
> 
>  SystemDictionary>>>osVersion
>  SystemDictionary>>>getSystemAttributes
>  SystemDictionary>>>platformName
> 
> which I believe can be replaced in 3.9 by ->
> 
>   SmalltalkImage current osVersion
>   SmalltalkImage current getSystemAttributes
>   SmalltalkImage current platformName
> 
> Now I just need to figure out how to correctly turn it into a
> changeset... and send it to the correct person...
> (Dave Lewis?) assuming they/he are/is interested.

Andy,

Yes, I'm interested. Thanks for looking into this, and I appreciate
any updates that you can send to me! I'll put out an OSProcess update
just as soon as I get some free time.

Dave




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