I also fail to see why this is soo bad. The plugin passes settings to another object. The plugin is Mac only, from 200 years ago.
Yes, we would try to do things different today, but the outside world is messy. > On 12 Mar 2015, at 06:58, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 12 Mar 2015, at 03:38, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Guillermo Polito wrote >>> Smalltalk os isMacOS >>> ifTrue: [ >>> self useHTTPProxy >>> ifTrue: [ >>> (self getHTTPProxyHost findTokens: ':') ifNotEmpty: [ >>> :p | >>> NetworkSystemSettings >>> httpProxyServer: p first; >>> httpProxyPort: p second asInteger; >>> useHTTPProxy: true ] ] >>> ifFalse: [ >>> NetworkSystemSettings useHTTPProxy: false ] ] >> >> Oh god, why?! Why?! > > > I harvested the class (the plugin was shipped with the VM already) > for Squeak against the *explicit* wish of Andreas (because one could do > better, > which of course never happened… Squeak in it’s essence…) > > So: I wanted to make sure that it did not brake anything… so I added a very > conservative check to only end up calling it on the mac, with as little > impact > as possible. > > Marcus
