[squeak-dev] Updating Universe

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Wed Jan 14 19:36:36 UTC 2009


Done.

Only Polymorph now. Is a like-for-like replacement but progressed.

Regards, Gary.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Chambers" <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Updating Universe


> Deleting now... update failure to be reported here!
>
> Regards, Gary.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philippe Marschall" <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Updating Universe
>
>
>> 2009/1/14, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
>>> Just wondering if it is a good or bad idea to remove older versions of
>>> packages from the (dev) universe?
>>> Particularly for UI Enhancements since it has been renamed to Polymorph.
>>>
>>> Don't want to cause anyone trouble but the (essentially obsolete) older
>>> versions seem like they may be confusing, given that only one of the two
>>> sets (Polymorph *or* UI Enhancements) should be loaded at any time.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I can't imagine a reason why you'd want to load an older version. If
>> the latest in the universe is broken it doesn't belong into the
>> universe. Also I'm not sure that not removing old versions is
>> compatible with the mission statement of universes. Since all packages
>> in a universe are supposed to work together that would then have to be
>> extended to all possible combinations of versions of packages.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
>>
>
> 




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