OldSocket backward compatibility considered harmful

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 17 09:57:34 UTC 2004


Am 17.11.2004 um 10:08 schrieb Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene:

> Well, I use this without problem for a long time on OS X and OS 9 and
> Windows.
> So , when some squeakers send notice about rip OldSocket from image , 
> others
> send mail about keep all examples in this class (and update to Socket).
> Me too and send the blamed methods as Socket.2.cs  telling what still 
> are
> needed , and at my surprise in a few days I see as infamous 6366 
> update with
> my name .
> So , suppose I was guilty .
> But wish some more experience guy tell me what are the exact 
> equivalents to
> all methods and the exact problems for keeping .
> By the way the sendObject and getObject belongs to Diego Gomez Deck 
> from his
> rST, and I use in network games.
>
> To bad I just loss my 6366 share of Squeak and almost 1 million value.
>

no, no. You just submitted it as a basis for discussion. This is fine. 
I shouldn't have
added it. (guess it was just too late).

     Marcus





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