keith wrote:
Most of us work with the latest of established packages on a day to day basis. Yet for some reason, both Pharo and "trunk" adopted the ancient version.
Simple answer: The old version works and it had tons of mileage. When I asked for feedback on who's been using MC 1.5 and 1.6 I drew blanks from anyone but you and Matthew. When I then tried to see whether one of these versions could do everything that the current shipping version can do I ran into the issues described here:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-October/140345.h...
The point being that if the new version can't deal with all the cases that the old version could, then it's probably not ready for adoption yet. If the issues listed above have been addressed since I'd be happy to repeat the experiment.
Cheers, - Andreas