[Squeakfoundation]KCP & 3.6

[Daniel Vainsencher]

In that case, and given Avi review, I'm assuming Tim is merely being
properly coy about approving stuff he's touched, and will approve it in
the next few days.

Would be nice if one of you guys can create the "simplified tutorial to
proper definition of new-style Pools", and post on the list/swiki so
people can do the right thing in the future.

Daniel

Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Do the "somewhat larger" issues mean problems as soon as we insert the
> > DecPools, or changes when we convert the image?
> 
> The latter. The problems really come from either somewhat strange uses of
> pool dictionaries (e.g., lower-case strings as keys) or from uses where the
> pool is extended dynamically (TextConstants).
> 
> > if the second, does this mean it makes sense to insert the code, but
> > convert the rest of the image in 3.7, or do you think this would be
> > confusing?
> 
> I think it's perfectly reasonable and what I anticipated anyways. Even
> though the remaining pools "ought to be converted" there is no requirement
> for doing it in 3.6 - we've been living with them for so long and the places
> where we had an immediate need for fixing them are fixed.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
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