[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] Xtreams in Pharo 3

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed Nov 20 00:24:00 UTC 2013


On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
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>> For the OpalCompiler support, I have simply added the compiler method in 
>> Xtreams-Parsing because it does not conflict with anything else, I have
>> the feeling that this is bearable...
>> I have also added a NotFoundError subclass of NotFound in Xtreams-support.
>> It's not ideal. That also means that bleeding-edge will not load in Squeak 
>> 4.4 or older, and maybe not elder version of Pharo...
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> You mean any version of Squeak, since there's no class named NotFound.

I see you've added it.

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>> Maybe I could have changed NotFoundError reference into NotFound?
>> In the future, or if we really want a bleding edge in elder images, we may 
>> have to fork the Xtreams-support, but as long as we can, it's better to
>> avoid it.
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> You can postpone this for a few months, but I don't see why it would make 
> sense. Forking is bad, but if you want to support two diverging platforms, 
> then you'll have to do it sooner or later.

Well, it's not worth to bother with it, because IIUC the Pharo folks will 
fork it anyway.


Levente

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> Levente
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>> 2013/11/19 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven at stfx.eu>
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>>       On 18 Nov 2013, at 22:33, Nicolas Cellier 
>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>       > Ah, NotFoundError is also undeclared in Squeak, it is the 
>> VisualWorks class name.
>>       > It could go into Xtreams-Support...
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>> OK, are you going to check this in, or should I ?
>> 
>> How are we going to deal with platform specific stuff (like the Opal 
>> compiler switch) ?
>> 
>> Sven
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