[squeak-dev] The Trunk: MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118.mcz

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 22 10:53:11 UTC 2013


On 22 November 2013 10:44, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> It's been over a year, and several rounds of discussion. The last round
>> fizzled out with 'yeah ok we should do it but don't call it Author'. Really,
>> I don't particularly care _what_ we do as long as we remove another part of
>> Utilities. So I'm going to write a minimal thing that pulls the state out of
>> Utilities, where it never belonged. Once the real problem - that state - has
>> been addressed, finessing the API will be much easier.
>
>
> Will your implementation be any different than what mine was?

Seeing as I didn't finish anything on the train this morning, I'd far
rather just use your implementation. Did you adjust the API to fit
Colin's comments about #username?

It looks like you've already done the work. I'm happy to be the one to
ram it through trunk.

frank

> Levente
>
>
>>
>> frank
>>
>> On 21 Nov 2013, at 23:05, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Back when Levente approached this, we had a detailed discussion about
>>> it.  I think we should all go back and read that before introducing a
>>> SystemAuthor class.
>>>
>>> Personally, I wouldn't mind just having
>>>
>>>   Smalltalk authorInitials  "answers a String"
>>>
>>> until we decide we need to support multiple concurrent Author objects
>>> with more than just name and initials..
>>>
>>> And this makes sense anyway -- Smalltalk's current #author.
>>>
>>> I struggle with having a whole class (SystemAuthor) when we cannot
>>> take proper advantage of it and only really need one String field at
>>> this time, not a heavy-weight, value-holder singleton.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 21 November 2013 21:20,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of MonticelloConfigurations to
>>>>> project The Trunk:
>>>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118.mcz
>>>>>
>>>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>>>
>>>>> Name: MonticelloConfigurations-fbs.118
>>>>> Author: fbs
>>>>> Time: 21 November 2013, 9:20:19.085 pm
>>>>> UUID: aaba44a1-8cfd-4147-8d94-69d5fc5ac571
>>>>> Ancestors: MonticelloConfigurations-cmm.117
>>>>>
>>>>> Move the #upgradeIsMerge preference to MCConfiguration.
>>>>>
>>>>> =============== Diff against MonticelloConfigurations-cmm.117
>>>>> ===============
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just by the way, MonticelloConfigurations depends on System for one
>>>> thing only now: Utilities' author stuff. I'm knocking up a completely
>>>> lame minimal mimic-existing-stuff SystemAuthor that I will hopefully
>>>> finish tomorrow. I plan to sever this dependency, and then remove all
>>>> the references to Utilities authorName/Initials with SystemAuthor
>>>> current, and then we can think about any other stuff we might do with
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> frank


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