condenseSources problem, need advice

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Thu Feb 17 00:36:30 UTC 2005


  Stef,

> strange because I remember that this was fixed.
> I feel sorry about that I would really like to fix that in 3.9
> but people have to agree on that because I do not want to get the same
> rant as the last time (you know idiot academic doing useless refactoring
> which I can only admit for Beeper beep).

  In this case,

  * The transition to SmalltalkImage is almost done, so it
    wouldn't have too much of that.
  * The condenseSource method has many dozens of lines, while the
    deprecated method will have two or so.  It doesn't add too much
    complexity.
  * If we remove LastQuitLogPosition class var from SystemDictionary,
    that will be a win.  Adding Beeper wasn't a win.

So, I don't think that moving #condenseSource to SmalltalkImage and
rewrite SystemDictionary>>condenseSource so that it simply call the
SmalltalkImage one wouldn't have that much resitance.

-- Yoshiki



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