[squeak-dev] Re: Project Isolation: Is This Still a True Statement?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Jul 28 03:57:55 UTC 2010


Go for it. Wrong comments are embarrassing at best, badly misleading at 
worst. Any improvement in documentation is a very welcome effort.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

On 7/27/2010 7:29 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> I thought we ripped out the project isolation stuff.
>
>
>  From the lass comment for ChangeSet:
>
> "For isolated projects (see Project class comment), the changeSet
> binding is semi-permanent.  Every project exists in an isolation layer
> defined by its closest enclosing parent (or itself) that is isolated.
>   If a project is not isolated, then changes reported to its designated
> changeSet must also be reported to the permanent changeSet for that
> layer, designated in the isolated project.  This ensures that that outer
> project will be able to revert all changes upon exit."
>
> Is this statement still true (I don't think so?) Would folks be
> receptive to my removing it from the comment?
>
> While some charitable soul has added a note to the Project class comment
> that isolation is not used anymore, I think having the large amount of
> cruft in the comment is at best distracting, and at worst confusing. I'm
> thinking I'd like to remove that stuff; older images which still use the
> mechanism will still have the comment, and since we keep all the
> releases around forever, we aren't at risk of losing the information for
> folks who want to run an older Squeak.
>
>
> What say the people of Squeak?
>
> --
> Casey Ransberger
>
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