Package Update Installation Anomalies
Ned Konz
ned at squeakland.org
Wed Mar 17 20:53:42 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 11:03 am, Doug Way wrote:
> Yes. Although I've been thinking that a better solution to this might
> be to have the SMLoader bring up a confirmation dialog if you try to
> install a package which is not listed as being compatible with your
> current image. For example:
>
> "You are attempting to install FooPackage, which is listed as being
> compatible with Squeak 3.5, into your Squeak 3.7alpha image, which is
> not guaranteed to work. Do you still want to proceed with the
> installation?"
And we should also probably watch for and warn the user about things like:
* increases to the number of Undeclared refs
* methods in other packages or change sets that got downgraded
* increases in the number of unimplemented messages
I have a package called CruftMinder that I've been working on from time to
time that does this kind of checkpointing and analysis; perhaps I'll put it
on SM.
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Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
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