[squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4

Dale Henrichs dhenrich at vmware.com
Fri Aug 3 23:19:58 UTC 2012


After the patch, a reasonable number of test issues:

  695 run, 691 passes, 0 expected failures, 2 failures, 2 errors, 0 unexpected passes

Dale

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Dale Henrichs" <dhenrich at vmware.com>
| To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
| Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 1:25:57 PM
| Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
| 
| 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
| | >
| | >
| | >
| | >
| | 
| | 
| 
| 


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