At least I was close:)

I will make the change to use #nextChunkPut: and #storeString. Thanks
for all your help, Squeakers!

On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> I did a quick test, and I think this should work:
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>         license := 'Put your license text here'.
>         stream nextChunkPut: license storeString.
>         ".... Continue with condense changes ...."
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> What it does is storing the license as a string literal (#storeString) so that the sources file will begin with the license as string and consequently the license can be read back in and parsed via:
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>         license := Compiler evaluate: ((Smalltalk sourcesFile) position: 0; nextChunk).
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> If you didn't use storeString you might have problems with utilities that try to parse the sources file, i.e., ChangeList and friends.
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> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
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> Ronald Spengler wrote:
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> I have a change in place for condenseSources   My question was really
> about how to put the license at the top in a way that can be written.
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> I want to be sure though, is there a particular method which should be
> called within condenseSources to add comment text to the top?
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> My (perhaps naive) implementation is doing something like:
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> f nextPutall: license
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> On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 25.02.2010, at 02:38, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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> "Ronald" == Ronald Spengler <ron.spengler at gmail.com> writes:
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> Ronald> Good people of Squeak,
> Ronald> We need to have a license statement at the top of our sources file for
> Ronald> the 4.0 release. I've been futsing with it without success.
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> Ronald> I've tried:
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> Ronald> 'foo'!
> Ronald> 'foo'!!
> Ronald> !'foo'!
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> (I think) The sources file is always accessed according to byte offsets.  Look
> at the code for #condenseSources, and make sure the first thing it does is
> write the license before rewriting everything else.
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> Randal is right. You can not just add something at the beginning of the sources or changes file. These are *NOT* text files but databases, the offsets are held in the image (each method knows the file position of its source code). The normal way to put a license in the beginning would be via #condenseSources - which we need to do anyway to purge all older versions of methods.
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Ron