Strange behavior

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Oct 23 07:10:18 UTC 2005


>>
> That issue was fixed - dunnow whether it's in some version of the
> code. but even I remembered that mail passing by:
>
> McHttpRepository>>flushCache
>    super flushCache.
>    readerCache := nil
>
> brings my post-PlusTools back to <<20Mb

I tried when avi sent  it did not work with my machine. But now  
everything I do is strange.


>
>> I am not up to speed with harvesting, so I everything need to be  
>> taken
>> a bit with a "I need to check that". But the problem with Traits  
>> is that
>> it changes the system in a way that can't be merged with Monticello.
>>
>>
> So let them publish an image and work from there?

Yes but this is not that simple. Because we do not want that people
just complain because z or x

>
> I'm fine either way, but then at the very least I want a big red
> trafficlight on the frontpage on whatever website that signals "please
> do not do ANY work on 3.9a until Traits is in, because it'll be
> worthless".
>
> Not money, but unclear communication is the root of all evil :)
>
>
>> Ok. Back when harvesting was done with changesets and nobody cared
>> too much, we had a good reaction time in some cases... but mostly,
>> reaction
>> time was *months* even for stuff like typos in class comments.
>>
>>
> Yup. And we complained about that, and we set about making it better -
> and I'm quite confident that we're on the correct path. If there are
> hurdles on the road, fine. But I think that the 3.9a team must then
> immediately pull the brakes (on squeak-dev, at least), tell everyone
> to stop what they're doing, and wait for event X to happen.

Not really
Traits is not impacting everything. Just Kernel and some browsers.


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