[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-dtl.732.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Jan 27 20:23:53 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 06:54:00PM +0000, H. Hirzel wrote:
> Leaving jokes aside, can we take out something useful of this idea?
> 
> For example it would be helpful that the Universe classes (about 50 of
> them) are marked as no longer needed and that they should be removed
> some day.
> 
> Or it should be marked that the MVC Debugger and the MVC SystemBrowser
> do not work and that MVC as such is unusable.
> 
> Informations like this can safe people quite some time. They are known
> limitations. Maybe the best would be a HelpSystem entry 'Known
> limitations' / 'Known issues'.

That's a good idea. Although it might be just as good to put the known
issues and limitations in one of the welcome windows. That way the
information would be updated for each new release, and the information
would be easily found by new users.

Dave

> 
> --Hannes
> 
> On 1/27/13, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 27-01-2013, at 2:02 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 27 January 2013 02:27,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> >>> David T. Lewis uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Inbox:
> >>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Kernel-dtl.732.mcz
> >>>
> >>> ==================== Summary ====================
> >>>
> >>> Name: Kernel-dtl.732
> >>> Author: dtl
> >>> Time: 26 January 2013, 9:27:02.37 pm
> >>> UUID: 2185e109-0ae4-45c7-bfba-4d25d8d73d47
> >>> Ancestors: Kernel-nice.731
> >>>
> >>> Facilitate social coding through communication of responsibilities.
> >
> > This clearly needs some extensions to be effective (but I can't be bothered
> > to implement them, of course) and ought to send an email to a suitable place
> > making the complaint public. The email should obviously find the name of the
> > implementor of the subject message and name and shame. Perhaps tweeting it
> > and G+ and facplace posts might help, too
> >
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > Strange OpCodes: D: Detonate
> >
> >
> >
> >


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