[Patch] Both source files now with 512MB capacity

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Jul 28 09:58:56 UTC 2006


May be we should keep that for 3.10 alpha.
We would really like to get rid of 3.9 :) since it starts to get  
heavy on us :)


> Bert,
>
> I thought over this for some time (well, actually not longer than  
> the time it took to write the methods ;-)
>
> I have no, absolutely no idea on what and how users of "base"  
> Squeak do something with source file index and pointer. With users  
> I mean, packages which exists out there. I cannot load + test them  
> all.
>
> So as a matter of *reminder* that something changed while the  
> respective packages where NOT in the image, I introduced the  
> "large" message name variants and put the flag on the "old" methods.
>
> If I had just changed the "old" methods to cope with the new  
> scheme, I would have taken *full* responsibility for packages not  
> in the image to work as if nothing happened while they where away,  
> which is beyond my capabilities.
>
> Take for example the prior: keyword recorded with preambles in  
> files, the format of its argument has changed (will be addressed  
> for 3.9 [only!] when completing migration).
>
> Thank you for sharing your concern. Would this be a show stopper?
>
> /Klaus
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:57:13 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> Am 27.07.2006 um 20:20 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>>
>>> List,
>>>
>>> attached are two .cs files which together push the limit from  
>>> 32MB to 512MB for the .sources file and the .changes file, no  
>>> problem so far on #7048.
>>
>> Why do you want to deprecate all the source-pointer related  
>> methods? Wouldn't changing them to cope with the new scheme be  
>> sufficient?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
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