On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > > > > Yes... but there is really stuff that nobody needs. > > Yes, of course. But for example, the other day ifNil:ifNotNilDo: and ifNotNilDo:ifNil: were removed. And maybe are packages that use them, for example O2. Cheers, Mariano > For the other, we should just put removals on the bugtracker and make sure > that we check with the main image before removal... > > In general, I hope to revisit the idea of supporting software evolution in > the language... see e.g. the paper > http://scg.unibe.ch/scgbib?query=Nier08b&display=abstract for some > thoughts of what is needed. > > Marcus > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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