[V3dot10] [ANN] Potential Tools Support for Process for 3.10 and 3.9.1

[Keith Hodges]

stephane ducasse wrote:
> Hi keith
>
> I do not have the time today to look at what you did but this is going 
> in the right direction
> Now of course they was a process in 3.9, I hate when people can say or 
> even think about that.
> Have a look at the scriptloader class in 3.9
>
> The principle was the following.
>     we created a list of packages + some possible initialization 
> actions and cleans that were available on the squeafoundation squeak  
> source
>     then we issued a cs that was published on the server that would 
> load the script.
>     for the changes that we could do with MC we issued a simple cs on 
> the server.
>
> So if the changes or MC would not have bug we could reproduce totally 
> an image strating with an old. we were not able because of squeak mess 
> (a category is not a package so sometimes you have circul;ar 
> dependency and also because when you fill in the code that modify the 
> UI and you do not have atomic loading it crashes).
> So with atomic loading and MC2 we should be able to get there.
>
> Stef
>
Thank you so much for filling in some details for me, I know it was 
silly for me to press on without really considering the earlier process, 
but it is important to integrate approaches where it makes sense.

Keith

	
	
		
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