On 4 December 2012 15:57, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
>
>> Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of ReleaseBuilder to project The
>> Inbox:
>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/ReleaseBuilder-fbs.78.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: ReleaseBuilder-fbs.78
>> Author: fbs
>> Time: 4 December 2012, 3:44:56.178 pm
>> UUID: b4603341-7ff0-4a63-938f-160ddfdff273
>> Ancestors: ReleaseBuilder-fbs.77
>>
>> 4.4 will ship with new network support (including IPv6) _disabled_ by
>> default.
>>
>> =============== Diff against ReleaseBuilder-fbs.77 ===============
>>
>> Item was changed:
>>  ----- Method: ReleaseBuilderFor4dot4 class>>setPreferences (in category
>> 'private') -----
>>  setPreferences
>>         Preferences
>>                 installBrightWindowColors ;
>>                 setPreference: #scrollBarsWithoutMenuButton toValue: true
>> ;
>>                 setPreference: #swapMouseButtons toValue: true ;
>>                 setPreference: #annotationPanes toValue: true ;
>>                 setPreference: #showSplitterHandles toValue: false ;
>>                 setPreference: #showBoundsInHalo toValue: true ;
>>                 setPreference: #alternateHandlesLook toValue: false ;
>>                 setPreference: #roundedMenuCorners toValue: false ;
>> +               setPreference: #roundedWindowCorners toValue: false;
>> +               setPreference: #enableIpv6 toValue: false.
>
>
> This won't work, because #enableIPv6 (note that it's not #enableIpv6) is a
> "pragma" preference, so Preferences has no effect on it. The proper way to
> change its value is to evaluate the following:
>
>         NetNameResolver enableIPv6: false.

OK. Typo aside, that's rather confusing. "Everything else" sets
preferences through Preferences, and the Preference Browser shows the
IPv6 preference.

frank

> Levente
>
> P.S.: In 4.5 we should get rid of Preferences altogether (this should have
> been done in 4.1 or 4.2 IMHO).

I can't say I'm a fan of random dictionaries containing random
symbols, with no way of finding, say, a preference that might differ
between the 'ja' and 'en' locales.

frank