yes
I think that you have two kind of unsent methods
        - the one that are not sent
        - the one that are not sent but were really specific to an experiment: 
uniClasses, project, automatic conversion...
:)

Stef

On Dec 12, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 12, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 11097
> > -----
> >
> > Issue 1577:     clean isSpecialWriteBinding (again)
> > Issue 1585:     More random dead code removal (76 unsent method removed)
> >
> >
> > Marcus, when you this kind of removal (unsent methods), do you check also 
> > on Dev and Web image? or just core ?
> >
> right now I only check the core... :-)
> 
> But the methods removed are of the kind that they really should not be part 
> of a public API....
> 
> IMHO we should also check senders in Pharo and Pharo Web. Pharo core in 
> itself is nothing. Pharo is the platform for other tools. We have the dev and 
> web image. We should take care about the packages that are loadable in Pharo. 
> I am not saying not to remove the method, but at least, to check in dev and 
> web images and if there are senders, send an email to the 
> developers/maintainers notifying about this change. Even if the messages 
> shouldn't be part of the API. With this we avoid possible DNU at runtime. Not 
> all the external packages covers a good percent of tested code in their unit 
> tests. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mariano
>  
> And should we remove too much: bringing back is simple.
> 
>        Marcus
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