[squeak-dev] Re: Monticello 1.6 features

Keith Hodges keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jul 4 22:21:53 UTC 2009


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
Yes and no,

 I have been banging on about this for 6 months. It used to be ok, but
last time I tried it it left a trail of obsolete classes.

Andreas, have you had a look at my new sceencasts there is a demo of
MC1.6 loading Seaside.

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/squeak/

Keith



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