[squeak-dev] MCMcmUpdaters for squeak46 in trunk image?

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Sun Oct 22 20:07:54 UTC 2017


Hi Dave,

Thanks for your answer. IIUC it is a remnant and could be removed from all packages in the trunk image, right?

Cheers,
Bernhard

> Am 22.10.2017 um 19:49 schrieb David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Bernhard Pieber wrote:
>> Dear Squeakers,
>> 
>> I was looking at the MCMcmUpdater class trying to find a way to identify the exact place in the update process where the packages get dirty. I wonder how do others debug problems with the update process.
>> 
>> I tripped over something strange. In each of the Registry and Updaters class vars there is a reference to an MCMcmUpdater instance for http://source.squeak.org/squeak46 in addition to one for http://source.squeak.org/trunk. Does this have a reason or is this a glitch?
>> 
> ,
> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> It is just the saved state from when the preference for "Update URL" was set to
> 'http://source.squeak.org/squeak46'. The 4.6 image would have been initially set
> for that preference, then changed to 'http://source.squeak.org/trunk' for following
> the trunk update stream.
> 
> In earlier days, the updater was all class side methods suitable for following
> only one update stream. More recently it has been changed to allow multiple
> updaters, which is useful if you want to maintain update streams for different
> projects, such as a trunk update stream along with a VMMaker update stream in
> the same image.
> 
> Dave


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