[squeak-dev] Re: Version Support and Statistics Gathering

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Mon Apr 5 07:39:23 UTC 2010


Hi!

Ken Causey wrote:
> For some reason I was thinking earlier today about the recent issues
> with SqueakMap and Göran's very reasonable desire to continue to support
> versions all the way back to 3.8 (IIRC).  I certainly agree that this is
> a good idea in general but there are costs involved and compromises that
> have to be made to support multiple versions, costs that increase as we
> release new versions.

Yes, but actually, for the moment - the cost is not high. It occurred to 
me that we can *add* another serialization method and still keep the 
current one "on the side". Then, depending on your client code it will 
use the appropriate request to fetch the map.

> I think we should consider ways of measuring the actual need for
> supporting past versions.  It has occurred to me that it would probably
> not be too difficult to have SqueakMap send the Squeak version info
> (platform and VM version also?) to the SqueakMap server, say each time
> the map is updated.  SqueakMap could record this information on the
> server and as it accumulates we could start to get some picture
> regarding, at least, the use of SqueakMap in the various Squeak
> versions.

Now, the recording you are talking about is indeed interesting in itself 
though. On the other hand, soonish I hope we will move to a distributed 
model of the map - and then this type of gathering will not really be 
that easy, I think.

regards, Göran



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