[squeak-dev] Cuis updated to #0228

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Jul 17 02:58:06 UTC 2009


Hi Folks,

A new release of Cuis is available at 
http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . It includes some bugfixes and 
more cleanup.

Some might remember 
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-February/124960.html 
. It was a discussion about the dangers of using the result of #fork and 
friends, and the convenience of first creating the process, storing it 
somewhere and later doing #resume. In this release of Cuis, all callers 
of #fork and friends that needed the return value were changed for that 
pattern, and now #fork and friends simply return nil. This is the way to 
avoid those nasty bugs.

Another interesting tweak was the reuse of Delays instead of creating 
new ones in several places. This enhances performance, and reduces GC 
stress.

As usual, all the updates starting at #0001 are available separately, 
and described in 
http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CategoriesAndChangeSets.txt . This could 
be useful for users of other Squeak images wanting some of the bug fixes 
and enhancements included in Cuis.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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