On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Chris Muller wrote:
Here's the opening of that discussion:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-September/165845...
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
Back when Levente approached this, we had a detailed discussion about it. I think we should all go back and read that before introducing a SystemAuthor class.
Personally, I wouldn't mind just having
Smalltalk authorInitials "answers a String"
until we decide we need to support multiple concurrent Author objects with more than just name and initials..
And this makes sense anyway -- Smalltalk's current #author.
I struggle with having a whole class (SystemAuthor) when we cannot take proper advantage of it and only really need one String field at this time, not a heavy-weight, value-holder singleton.
So more than a year has passed, but it seems to me that there's no demand for anything more than extracting the functionality from Utilities. Also, there are two fields: initials and name. And if those are held in a single object, then swapping them is simpler, which would be useful while running the tests.
Levente
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 November 2013 21:20, commits@source.squeak.org wrote:
Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of MonticelloConfigurations to project The Trunk: http://source.squeak.org/trunk/MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118.mcz
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Name: MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118 Author: fbs Time: 21 November 2013, 9:20:19.085 pm UUID: aaba44a1-8cfd-4147-8d94-69d5fc5ac571 Ancestors: MonticelloConfigurations-cmm.117
Move the #upgradeIsMerge preference to MCConfiguration.
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Just by the way, MonticelloConfigurations depends on System for one thing only now: Utilities' author stuff. I'm knocking up a completely lame minimal mimic-existing-stuff SystemAuthor that I will hopefully finish tomorrow. I plan to sever this dependency, and then remove all the references to Utilities authorName/Initials with SystemAuthor current, and then we can think about any other stuff we might do with this.
frank