On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 14:56 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> >> * When you have system methods that are modified during load and rely on 
> >> new methods in the package. This is by far the biggest issue (and a 
> >> problem even with Change Sets). For example, 
> >> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6535 contains a change to 
> >> OrderedCollection>>copyFrom:to: which utilizes postCopyFrom:to: that is 
> >> defined in the same place. In change sets you can at least manually 
> >> reorder the methods. Monticello does it unpredictably so it may work for 
> >> one person and not for another (I wish MC would load methods in a 
> >> well-defined order).
> > 
> > This is never a problem in MC1.6, period. 
> 
> Wow. This sounds like an excellent reason to switch to MC 1.6 since this 
> has been a constant nightmare in the back of my for dealing with 
> incremental updates. Is 1.6 ready for wide-spread use?
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas

Keep in mind that 1.6 does not support Traits.  Frankly, I'm a nut about
minimalism and would prefer Traits as an external package if that is at
all possible.  But then that would potentially offload support for
loading packages with Traits to whoever takes on it's maintenance.

Ken
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