[squeak-dev] Re: SystemEditor

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 23:05:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:59:48PM -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:53:17PM -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > Hi Colin -
> > 
> > I was looking over SystemEditor and one thing that really surprised me 
> > was the use of ClassEditors as proxies. What is the reasoning behind it? 
> > It makes the design difficult to understand and extremely hard to debug 
> > - I gave up trying to find out what causes the issue with class 
> > migration when I effectively couldn't debug the editors since all they 
> > would show me were those pretend-classes. Is there some sort of debug 
> > mode to turn off all that evil magic? ;-)
> 
> yes. from the context of a class editor, do this:
> 
> self system debug: true
> 
> I got fed up with that myself today and made debug mode the
> default. I havn't committed that change yet.

Committed: SystemEditor-Squeak-mtf.160

> The problem with migration is most likely in InstanceMigrator.
> I'm looking into that myself. It is a new bug. This used to
> work.
> 
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> Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
> 

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