It's been over a year, and several rounds of discussion. The last round fizzled out with 'yeah ok we should do it but don't call it Author'. Really, I don't particularly care _what_ we do as long as we remove another part of Utilities. So I'm going to write a minimal thing that pulls the state out of Utilities, where it never belonged. Once the real problem - that state - has been addressed, finessing the API will be much easier.

frank

On 21 Nov 2013, at 23:05, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Back when Levente approached this, we had a detailed discussion about
> it.  I think we should all go back and read that before introducing a
> SystemAuthor class.
> 
> Personally, I wouldn't mind just having
> 
>   Smalltalk authorInitials  "answers a String"
> 
> until we decide we need to support multiple concurrent Author objects
> with more than just name and initials..
> 
> And this makes sense anyway -- Smalltalk's current #author.
> 
> I struggle with having a whole class (SystemAuthor) when we cannot
> take proper advantage of it and only really need one String field at
> this time, not a heavy-weight, value-holder singleton.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 November 2013 21:20,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>> Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of MonticelloConfigurations to project The Trunk:
>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118.mcz
>>> 
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>> 
>>> Name: MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118
>>> Author: fbs
>>> Time: 21 November 2013, 9:20:19.085 pm
>>> UUID: aaba44a1-8cfd-4147-8d94-69d5fc5ac571
>>> Ancestors: MonticelloConfigurations-cmm.117
>>> 
>>> Move the #upgradeIsMerge preference to MCConfiguration.
>>> 
>>> =============== Diff against MonticelloConfigurations-cmm.117 ===============
>> 
>> Just by the way, MonticelloConfigurations depends on System for one
>> thing only now: Utilities' author stuff. I'm knocking up a completely
>> lame minimal mimic-existing-stuff SystemAuthor that I will hopefully
>> finish tomorrow. I plan to sever this dependency, and then remove all
>> the references to Utilities authorName/Initials with SystemAuthor
>> current, and then we can think about any other stuff we might do with
>> this.
>> 
>> frank
>> 
>