[squeak-dev] Re: Closures in Trunk
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Jul 21 11:43:57 UTC 2009
On 21.07.2009, at 00:54, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> IIRC, preambles are not handled specifically by DiffyVersions. So
>> when a preamble is requested of the diffy version and it has none,
>> then it would have to look in its base version. Not sure if this is
>> working, it probably has never been tested before. Alternatively,
>> the server could be modified to always include preambles in mcds.
>
> I think the issue might be related to the apparent problem that
> preambles and postscripts do not appear to be included in the
> sources, but only stored in binary form. This seems badly broken to
> say the least - if the loader ever needs to fall back to source
> parsing, both preambles and postscripts would be completely ignored.
> I could see how that could cause problems along the way.
Indeed, that is a problem. I never looked how they were actually
implemented ... maybe newer MC versions do better?
- Bert -
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