[squeak-dev] bug? / where is Squeak 4.4
Frank Shearar
frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 21:58:57 UTC 2013
That's my fault. I'd _like_ to have the version name relate to the
source filename, but it doesn't. Use SqueakV41.sources. I'll go remove
the SqueakV44.sources, as I should have done a while ago. Sorry for
the confusion!
frank
On 4 March 2013 20:55, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
> I just recently downloaded from ftp://ftp.squeak.org/4.4/
> I tried the SqueakV44.sources but apparently something in the image is looking for SqueakV41.sources
>
> Ken G. Brown
>
> On 2013-03-04, at 1:45 PM, Ralph Boland wrote:
>
>> I am using Squeak 3.10 but am planning to port my code to Squeak 4.4 soon.
>> Today I discovered that method ClassBuilder>>validateClassName:
>> aString appears to expect a string as a parameter but in fact
>> requires a symbol.
>>
>> e.g. (ClassBuilder new validateClassName: 'Smalltalk') returns true.
>> But: (ClassBuilder new validateClassName: #Smalltalk) generates a Warning:
>>
>> (Smalltalk already exists!
>> Proceed will store over it.
>>
>> Select Proceed to continue, or close this window to
>> cancel the operation.)
>>
>> The latter is correct although it is the caller of validateClassName:
>> that is going to do
>> the overwrite so (I think) it is inapproapriate for validateClassName:
>> to generate the warning.
>>
>> Finally, I find it odd that both
>>
>> (ClassBuilder new validateClassName: #Class) returns true.
>> and
>> (ClassBuilder new validateClassName: #NotClass) returns true.
>>
>> Anyway, before reporting this as a bug, I decided to download Squeak 4.4 first
>> (in preparation for porting) and verify that the bug is there also.
>> But at www.squeak.org I only find Squeak 4.3.
>> So where do I find Squeak 4.4?
>>
>> Finally, where do I find instructions on how to report this bug (if
>> it exists in Squeak 4.4).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ralph Boland
>>
>
>
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