Sounds fair to me ... I'll patch my current in place and kick off the tests again ...

Thanks guys,

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
| To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 1:20:57 PM
| Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
| 
| On 3 August 2012 21:17, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
| >
| >
| > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com>
| > wrote:
| >>
| >> Frank,
| >>
| >> The Metacello tests add/remove global variables to/from Smalltalk
| >> and it
| >> looks like Environment does not implement #removeKey:ifAbsent:, so
| >> I've got
| >> some 400 test failures because I can't remove a global from
| >> Smalltalk ...
| >>
| >> I can hack this for the time being but I'm curious what the longer
| >> term
| >> plan will be with regards to removing global variables from
| >> Smalltalk or
| >> perhaps leaving #removeKey:ifAbsent: out is inadvertent ...
| >>
| >> BTW, I'm using update 12154 ...
| >
| >
| > First, Environments is being pushed to Squeak 4.5, so it should be
| > removed
| > from 4.4 shortly.
| >
| > During the development period for 4.5, Environments will implement
| > #removeKey:ifAbsent:, but eventually that will be deprecated in
| > favour of
| > #undeclare: or something similar.
| 
| For the nonce, how about we implement #removeKey:ifAbsent: (see
| Inbox), so we can at least unblock Dale?
| 
| We do need to remove Environments, but Dale's work contributes to
| ensuring/checking 4.4's stability.
| 
| frank
| 
| > Colin
| >
| >
| >
| >
| 
|