[squeak-dev] Re: MVC now reloadable in trunk

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Feb 15 06:21:05 UTC 2010


David T. Lewis wrote:
> There are a few rough edges, but it is now reasonably safe to unload and
> reload MVC in Squeak trunk.

Wow. David, you ROCK!!!

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> Unloading:
> 
>   Smalltalk zapMVCprojects.
>   (MCPackage named: 'ToolBuilder-MVC') unload.
>   (MCPackage named: 'ST80') unload.
>   ScheduledControllers := nil.
>   Smalltalk garbageCollect.
> 
> Reloading:
> 
>   Load package ST80
>   Load package ToolBuilder-MVC
>   Evaluate "MVCToolBuilder compileAll".
> 
> Issues:
> 
> - MVCToolBuilder needs to be recompiled after reloading. I have not yet
>   found the reason, but something still needs to be fixed here.
> 
> - MVC itself is still badly broken, and has been since about Squeak 3.8.
>   Nothing that I did changes that.
> 
> - The new methods in category "editors" in class Project should probably
>   be moved to UIManager.
> 
> - All senders of Project>>dispatchTo:addPrefixAndSend:withArguments: should
>   be updated to use ToolBuilder, and the #dispatchTo:addPrefixAndSend:withArguments:
>   mechanism should be removed.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 




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