[squeak-dev] Re: Project Isolation: Is This Still a True Statement?

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 04:41:10 UTC 2010


In the Inbox.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Go for it. Wrong comments are embarrassing at best, badly misleading at
> worst. Any improvement in documentation is a very welcome effort.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
> On 7/27/2010 7:29 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>
>> I thought we ripped out the project isolation stuff.
>>
>>
>>  From the lass comment for ChangeSet:
>>
>> "For isolated projects (see Project class comment), the changeSet
>> binding is semi-permanent.  Every project exists in an isolation layer
>> defined by its closest enclosing parent (or itself) that is isolated.
>>  If a project is not isolated, then changes reported to its designated
>> changeSet must also be reported to the permanent changeSet for that
>> layer, designated in the isolated project.  This ensures that that outer
>> project will be able to revert all changes upon exit."
>>
>> Is this statement still true (I don't think so?) Would folks be
>> receptive to my removing it from the comment?
>>
>> While some charitable soul has added a note to the Project class comment
>> that isolation is not used anymore, I think having the large amount of
>> cruft in the comment is at best distracting, and at worst confusing. I'm
>> thinking I'd like to remove that stuff; older images which still use the
>> mechanism will still have the comment, and since we keep all the
>> releases around forever, we aren't at risk of losing the information for
>> folks who want to run an older Squeak.
>>
>>
>> What say the people of Squeak?
>>
>> --
>> Casey Ransberger
>>
>>
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-- 
Casey Ransberger
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