[squeak-dev] Package Pane Browser Broken

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 07:14:15 UTC 2011


On 12 December 2011 23:36, Christopher Oliver
<current.input.port at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:49:14 -0500
> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm... it was broken in Squeak 4.2, but worked in Squeak 4.1. Evidently
>> the package browser is not getting a lot of heavy use ;-) Nevertheless it
>> is broken and a fix would be much appreciated!
>
> I get a strong feeling this relates to:
>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/155606
>
> Browser>>selectedSystemCategoryName provided a hook for subclasses to override.
> Eliding this hook broke PackagePaneBrowser.  A hasty optimization oblivious to
> Einstein's razor perhaps?
>
> Mumble mumble,
>
> --
> Christopher Oliver <current.input.port at gmail.com>
>

Indeed, I suspected it was me who broke it.

I'd have fixed it, had I been able to find the PPB in the menu. I
poked around a bit, and then gave up. So (a) yes, I (probably?) broke
it  and (b) we obviously need loads more tests.

frank



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