[squeak-dev] [BUG]Preferences class(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #soundsEnabled

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 13:13:20 UTC 2018


2018-08-16 14:51 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:

> Hi Edgar,
> First, I see no such sender of #soundsEnabled in base image, so it's more
> a problem of uncompatibility with add-on packages (extensions) than a
> problem of base image, right?
>
> Then, thanks to commit messages in the mailing list, I can trace that
> Preferences class>>#soundsEnabled - which is a EToys thing - was added in
> Trunk: System-tfel.902.mcz (which itself is a merge with System-tfel.882).
>
> But unfortunately, I can't easily trace when this message was removed in
> favour of a doesNotUnderstand: solution...
> Maybe it was removed at a time when the mailing list reports were not
> functional?
> Or maybe, the changes were not reported because too long...
> (That's a bad feature IMO, on the assumption that code should never be too
> long, we should not need any such guard anyway...).
>

Nope,
it's because the change (the removal of Preferences class>>#soundsEnabled )
happened in a version not commited in trunk.
then the change was not reported from

Name: System-tfel.911
Author: tfel
Time: 29 August 2016, 4:20:07.411946 pm
UUID: 0242c0ab-04df-994a-adb2-a8c26da259fa
Ancestors: System-tfel.902, System-ul.910

because only the diff to more recent System-ul.910 is shown in mailing
list...



> The thing to do before/after loading such EToys like extension is to
> perform Etoys like initialization, and that could well be a responsibility
> of extension code, rather than of base image. So maybe it's not a problem
> of Trunk by itself...
> The question is how do we advertize the package maintainers about these
> new responsibilities caused by evolutions of Trunk (understand evolution as
> shrinking/simplifying)?
>
>
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