[squeak-dev] The Inbox: System-fbs.523.mcz

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 18:45:31 UTC 2013


On 12 April 2013 19:15, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 12.04.2013, at 11:07, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are far too few implementors of #cleanUp: then.
>
> Actually, there are very many implementers of #cleanUp. Only for aggressive clean up (e.g. release image building) you need to implement cleanUp:.
>
>> I agree with
>> your sentiment. So to reimplement the idea of this method, we'd want
>> TheWorldMenu >> #cleanUp:
>
> Already implemented as cleanUp.
>
>> Preferences >> #cleanUp:, and so on?
>
> That one we need apparently. But again, #cleanUp is sufficient.

Ah. I followed the chain of SmalltalkImage >> #cleanUp -> #cleanUp: ->
... -> #cleanUp:except:confirming: and figured that #cleanUp: was the
desired approach. Glad to see I have less to do!

frank

>>> That being said, I'm not sure this method should be in System at all - seems more of a Monticello thing? Do we have other MC dependencies in System already?
>>
>> Well, it's a rip-off of SmalltalkImage >> #unloadAllKnownPackages, but
>> I agree with the sentiment: System shouldn't depend on Monticello, or
>> Morphic (!), or...
>>
>> frank
>
>
> :)
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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