When can we have SqueakMpa package version aware...

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Nov 30 22:15:08 UTC 2004


Am 30.11.2004 um 22:02 schrieb Boris Gaertner:

>
> "stéphane ducasse" <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>
>> We would like to be able to manage the code of some packages
>> with squeakMap but without having to create one package for each
>> version
> With the release of Squeak 3.7 this became a real necessity.
> My strategy for more or less version-independent packages
> is to create sar-files. In the preamble I write statements like:
>
> self fileInMember: 'basicCode.cs'.
> SystemVersion current majorMinorVersion < 'Squeak3.7'
>     ifTrue: [self fileInMember: 'stuffFor36.cs'].
>
> stuffFor36.cs contains selected updates, but, most important,
> it contains class methods for the old initialization pattern.
>
> Is this a solution for you?
>

not really, as we would like to just ship .mcz files from Squeaksource.

    Marcus




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