[squeak-dev] The Trunk: System-tonyg.1224.mcz

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com
Mon Mar 29 08:43:06 UTC 2021


I noticed this, btw, removing a system category from a non-default 
environment, only to find the classes in Smalltalk were removed :-)



On 3/29/21 10:42 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> On 3/29/21 10:36 AM, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>> I suppose that the idea was that every environment has its own system 
>> organization.
> 
> Exactly. They already do: but the problem is that doing anything with 
> the resulting SystemOrganizer resulted in changes to *Smalltalk 
> globals*! So this allows the per-Environment organizers to scope their 
> effects correctly.
> 
>> By adding a back reference from organization to environment, there is 
>> still no support of "multiple" environments. Do you plan to change 
>> this dynamically? If so, why? :-) Would you sketch an example?
> 
> It wouldn't change dynamically: instead, it is set at construction time. 
> See related change Environments-tonyg.80.
> 
> Regards,
>    Tony
> 


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