On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Chris Muller wrote:

> Here's the opening of that discussion:
>
>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-September/165845.html
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, 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.

So more than a year has passed, but it seems to me that there's no demand 
for anything more than extracting the functionality from Utilities.
Also, there are two fields: initials and name. And if those are held in a 
single object, then swapping them is simpler, which would be useful while 
running the tests.


Levente

>>
>> 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
>>>
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