How NOT to move a group of methods to a new package in 5 minutes or less.

Peace Jerome peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 11 07:20:49 UTC 2006


How not to move a group of methods to a new package in
5 minutes or less.

1) Andreas notices some mispackaged messages/methods
in the Form class
e.g. Form>>scaledIntoFormOfSize:
2) He removes them from the package.
3) He repackages them into new Morphic extention
catagories.
4) He gives notice that he is doing this. 
4a) and places the moved methods on mantis as a
changeset.
6) Stef harvests the new graphics package into Sq7039 
6a) But not the moved methods.
7) Stef publishes 7039 to the ftp site.
8) It is down loaded by hopeful users.
9) And yellowclicking will not bring up menus because
the methods are missing.

10)... a suivre (to be continued).


I am sorry. This is not meant a criticism of the
people involved. Andreas is being rigorous and Stef is
trying to do a two man job all by himself. This was
just too good a illustration of my challenge question.

see
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-July/105890.html



to pass up relating.

How long will it take to move this group of methods?
How can it be done in 5 minutes or less?

Yours in curiosity, -- Jerome Peace


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