[squeak-dev] Fwd: Removing of Universe classes

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 16:11:13 UTC 2018


Hi Marcel,

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 7:42 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> The ReleaseBuilder does not deal with the build number. We do need that offset in Squeak-Version to compute our build number.

Then I suggest it contain a class called SqueakVersion whose class comment includes the gist of Levente's message and whose two method categories, class & instance side, are called 'read the class comment' ;-)
 
> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 25.01.2018 15:57:31 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>>     but Squeak-Version is itself empty and the version info in ReleaseBuilder would appear to have obsoleted it.  Shouldn't we also remove Squeak-Version?
>> 
>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
>> 
>>> On Jan 24, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This one
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>
>>> Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:50 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Removing of Universe classes
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This question comes up from time to time.
>>> There's an empty package named Squeak-Version in the image. When you unload a package, let's say Universes-mt.48, you add 49 (48 + 1) to the version number of Squeak-Version and save it as well to ensure that the global Squeak version number keeps increasing.
>>> 
>>> Levente
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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