[squeak-dev] Re: [Cuis] Cuis - Cross fork compatibility of packages: A proposal

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Jan 27 07:24:01 UTC 2010


keith wrote:
> MC1.5 has quite a few users out there, anyone who uses LPF, which 
> included Randal for a start.
> 
> I would expect MC1.5 to be stable enough, this is the one with the 
> atomic loading preference turned OFF.
> 
> The email you reference above is referring to MC1.6 (MCPackageLoader2) 
> this is the experimental, atomic loading loader, which everyone knows 
> isn't finished, no one ever claimed it was stable. We only ever claimed 
> it would be really worth finishing and I had been asking for help with 
> for more than 18 months, because it is not my area of expertise at all, 
> and Matthew had got stuck afaik.
> 
> So the point being, if you test the wrong thing, you wont get the 
> results you hoped for.

I tested what I what I was told by the best authority at hand. How does 
one load and test the "right" thing?

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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