[squeak-dev] Re: Monticello maintainer

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Feb 15 07:40:39 UTC 2010


Colin Putney wrote:
> On 2010-02-12, at 11:17 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Hi Colin -
>>
>> In your newly found role as MC maintainer, I have a question for you: I am wondering about the role of errorDefinitions in MCPackageLoader. What errors are they supposed to capture? The only one I am aware of is when a variable gets moved up or down inside a package. Are there others?
>>
>> (the reason I'm asking is that I fixed this case today with help from Eliot, so we may be able to remove this unnecessary complexity)
> 
> I don't think this was meant a workaround to a known problem. It's just a way to gracefully handle unexpected errors while loading a package. 
> 
> I'm setting up a new repository for MC1 development, where we can collect the history relevant to the current trunk version, and commit fixes and further development. I figure the best way to distribute is just to push to the trunk repository, but we'll at least have well-defined releases. Is the fix you and Eliot made available somewhere?

I pushed into trunk yesterday. The relevant MC part is very simple: Just 
a handler for DuplicateVariableError in MCPackageLoader>>basicLoad that 
resumes the exception.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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