[Vm-dev] Re: Mac + Cog - mouse clicks

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 02:57:41 UTC 2010


On 24 December 2010 03:46, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/23/2010 6:30 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> mmm other thoughts.
>>> The plugins *could* be just the raw binaries ala unix builds. The only
>>> reason they were bundles is because in early 2000 era we ran os-9 and os-x
>>> flavors.
>>> That could be all dropped, and maybe just forgo creating plugin bundles.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for details, i added an issue ticket to not forget this.
>> (http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3480)
>
> I think it would be better to file general VM issues on bugs.squeak.org.
>
done (http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7590).
i put it simply put it as a reminder for my self, because considered
John's comments worth it.

> Thanks,
>  - Andreas
>
>>> On 2010-12-23, at 5:46 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 24 December 2010 02:16, John M McIntosh
>>>> <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Historically I had not put the defaults in the binary because people
>>>>> sometimes would grab the binary and toss all the other parts of the bundle.
>>>>>  Later no one understood how to change a default because the plist hint was
>>>>> missing.
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah.. well.. to prevent tossing, i would simply bummer with message
>>>> like 'hey! where is my bundle?'. :)
>>>>
>>>> It is easy to do by applying following pattern everywhere:
>>>>
>>>> replace all calls like
>>>> value := getKeyValue( KeyName)
>>>> with:
>>>> value := getKeyValue( KeyName , defaultValue)
>>>>
>>>> so, there is no chance to get NULL&  crash, because returned values
>>>> are always valid.
>>>>
>>>> Esteban, it all yours..
>>>> I don't have time doing it right now, because i got like 6 other
>>>> configs to write :)
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.


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