On 22 December 2013 00:53, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And, also, let me pose an additional question:  Why do we need
>> 'exports' at all?  The use-case we're solving is name-disambiguation,
>> period.  Exports seems to be about making certain classes
>> "unimportable", e.g., "private".
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>> Why are exports needed at all?
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> Name disambiguation is *one* of the use cases. Private classes is another
> one. I'd really like to be able to set up an Xtreams environment properly.
> See the discussion on Xtreams here:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-June/164605.html

I thought I'd give this a whirl, because it _ought_ to be trivial with
my Monticello submissions in the Inbox.

However, XTIOHandle can't register itself to the shutdown list because
SmalltalkImage >> #add:toList:after: checks to see if Smalltalk
globals includes: aClass, which of course is false.

(http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7801)

(There's also http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7800, "Loading an MC
package into a private Environment adds a global PackageInfo")

So please, try out my Inbox submission, and let's flush out any
Environment bugs/bugs in the tooling/lack of Environment support.

frank