<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 12.04.2010, at 20:47, Eliot Miranda wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Hi Bert,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 12.04.2010, at 00:27, Göran Krampe wrote:<br>
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> I have tried to maintain SM outside of the image earlier - but since the code sits in the image I understand that people start hacking on it. :) The effect is that there have been some changes to SMBase in trunk that only work in *later images*. For example, changing ifNotNilDo: to ifNotNil:. That does NOT work in Squeak 3.8 for example.<br>
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> So now I have backed out a few of these fixes so that the code still works in 3.8. For the moment - since I don't want to "disturb" the trunk way of things too much - just keep in mind that if you fix stuff in SMBase, the code is CURRENTLY meant to work in 3.8 and higher!<br>
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I ran into exactly the same problem this weekend. Wanted to work on packetizing the Etoys image, using Karl's script as a start. But I got stuck when filing in recent Monticello versions gave a *syntax* error because ifNotNilDo: was replaced by ifNotNil:.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why not upgrade the compiler with Vassili's ifNotNil: enhancement? I believe versions of his changes go back to 3.8. He has a change set for 3.8 or thereabouts on his web site. All systems with my closure compiler support ifNotNil: with an argument. So there are lots of sources for the enhancement. I could get this done for you tomorrow night if you're leery of doing it yourself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Eliot</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be wonderful, thanks! :) </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">I agree with you that some packages should be kept compatible with older image versions. In particular those packages that are necessary to upgrade older code bases.<br>
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Does anyone have a snippet to find in a package all ifNotNil: sends that have a 1-argument block?<br>
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