[ANN][TEST] ANSI Tests as SAR package on SqueakMap

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Sat Mar 22 16:06:56 UTC 2003


Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Without expressing a strong opinion on this (since I don't yet have
> one), one good thing about it would be that people could then attempt to
> write their code to ANSI, for reasonable portability with other Smalltalks 
> (Modulo UI)
> 
> Daniel
> 

I wonder what would be possible objections against including the ANSI
compability package in release 3.6 or 3.7.  What are the pros and cons?
Building Squeak packages on a ANSI compatible developer image seems to
be a valuable thing to do. Perhaps it breaks existing code? If yes
where?

-- Hannes



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