[squeak-dev] Re: Monticello 1.6 features
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat Jul 4 21:56:04 UTC 2009
Matthew Fulmer wrote:
>> * When you have system methods that are modified during load and rely on
>> new methods in the package. This is by far the biggest issue (and a
>> problem even with Change Sets). For example,
>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6535 contains a change to
>> OrderedCollection>>copyFrom:to: which utilizes postCopyFrom:to: that is
>> defined in the same place. In change sets you can at least manually
>> reorder the methods. Monticello does it unpredictably so it may work for
>> one person and not for another (I wish MC would load methods in a
>> well-defined order).
>
> This is never a problem in MC1.6, period.
Wow. This sounds like an excellent reason to switch to MC 1.6 since this
has been a constant nightmare in the back of my for dealing with
incremental updates. Is 1.6 ready for wide-spread use?
Cheers,
- Andreas
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