Hi alan

you should not mixed Squeak and Sokoban or any goodies.
Have you contacted his author robert hirsfeld
May be is simply did not like your changes?

Stef

On 8 mars 06, at 03:57, Alan Grimes wrote:

> goran at krampe.se wrote:
>> Alan Grimes <alangrimes at starpower.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's what I do when I find a bug in squeak:
>>
>> [SNIP of blablabla]
>>
>> You forgot:
>>
>> 8. Bitch on squeak-dev instead of:
>> 	a) helping WebTeam to improve squeak.org
>> 	b) help fixing the in-image-bug-reporting-mechanism to point to  
>> suggest
>> mantis
>> 	c) ask how to help in any other way or (gasp) actually just do it
>
> Okay, I can play this game.
>
> I was about ready to concede when I remembered what happens when I do
> try to contribute.
>
> A fair number of moons ago, I tweaked the Sokoban Morph to within an
> inch of it's life and tried to publish it on Squeak's version control
> archive (I can't remember it's name...). While some might take issue
> with some of my stylistic decisions, the code did work and  
> demonstrated
> a clear improvment in the quality of gameplay. (Implementing my  
> changes
> from scratch would take about 20 hours of work..) I submitted this to
> whom I thought was the maintainer. He liked some of my changes but
> preferred a different visual style... I'm really not sure what  
> happened
> to that version... A few weeks later a version of Sokoban appeared in
> the mainline. It was based on the same suckey code that had  
> inspired me
> to fix it in the first place!
>
> That isn't to say that none of my changes are appreciated. I made
> several enhancements to B3DMatrix (If I remember the class name
> correctly...) that either simplified the call graph, removed redundant
> methods, or helped reign in excessive GCing... One person noticed  
> one of
> my changes and is probably enjoying it on his system right now. The  
> rest
> of you aren't.
>
> Contribute to Squeak? What's the point... Your enhancements and fixes
> vanish into the aether and never get used.
>
> Squeak is still a great system but all the cool things are happening
> behind closed doors at the croquetproject... Ofcourse when 1.0  
> comes out
> I'll have to back-port in all of the enhancements I've made to 0.3. =\
>
>
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