[squeak-dev] Package Pane Browser Broken

Christopher Oliver current.input.port at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 23:36:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:49:14 -0500
"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... it was broken in Squeak 4.2, but worked in Squeak 4.1. Evidently
> the package browser is not getting a lot of heavy use ;-) Nevertheless it
> is broken and a fix would be much appreciated!

I get a strong feeling this relates to:
   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/155606

Browser>>selectedSystemCategoryName provided a hook for subclasses to override.
Eliding this hook broke PackagePaneBrowser.  A hasty optimization oblivious to
Einstein's razor perhaps?

Mumble mumble,

-- 
Christopher Oliver <current.input.port at gmail.com>



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