[Newbies] Chronos package loading error
Paul DeBruicker
pdebruic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 13:48:15 UTC 2011
Hi -
Chronos (http://www.chronos-st.org & http://www.squeaksource.com/Chronos
) would load into and work in Squeak 3.9, but it won't load into 4.2.
The error given is 'Futures must be sent messages' I think this comes
up because Chronos has a class InfiniteTimepoint that has two class side
methods:
InfiniteTimepoint class >> polarity: polarity
^polarity ifTrue: [self future] ifFalse: [self past]
and
InfiniteTimepoint class >> future
Future == nil
ifTrue:
[Future :=
(self basicNew)
bePositive;
beImmutable].
^Future
For some reason when polarity: is compiled it is using Object>>future
rather than the version of future that is defined by InfiniteTimepoint.
Is there any way to change the load/compile order of those two methods
when loading into 4.2? I know I could rename the InfiniteTimepoint
version of future to something else but its a package that works as is
on VisualWorks, Dolphin, Pharo, and Gemstone. So I'd either maintain a
separate version for squeak or have to get the package maintainer to
make a change for all platforms and users.
I'm using linux and the all-in-one app from squeak.org
Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
Paul
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