Plugin Versioning Woes?

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed May 2 19:10:48 UTC 2001


I think Mark mean the Squeak-as-Nestscape-plugin.
Maybe I'm mistaken ?
Karl 


Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> is widely believed to have written:
> 
> > There are already some versioning problems with the Squeak plugins,
> > it seems to me.
> [snip]
> Well, at least some of this was thought out at the beginning of the
> plugins story. If you look at the implementations of setInterpreter you
> will see that it checks for the matching major version and >= minor
> version between the vm core and the plugin. The idea is (roughly
> speaking) that plugins are expected to be compatible with any vm of the
> same major number and at least as high minor number. Of course, this
> doesn't provide any versioning of the plugin that can help you work out
> which one of several copies is the 'best'. The module name string should
> normally have a compilation date in it which could be examined, but even
> that is only a mild indicator of 'goodness'.
> 
> tim
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Useful Latin Phrases:- Furnulum pani nolo = I don't want a toaster.





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