> Why was SmalltalkImage >> os marked as deprecated?
> I thought the result of previous discussion was that the methods themselves
> should be moved to separate classes (like OSPlatform), but the delegating
> method in SmalltalkImage should be kept...
if we have OSPlatform as in Sophie and all the infrastructure there (like
isUnix, isMacOS...) do we want to duplicate it in SmalltalkImage?
(except for compatibility with squeak).
Ideally Smalltalk should be a simple lightweight lobby to access behavior
Smalltalk platform
-> OSPlatform
Smalltalk vm
Smalltalk globals.
Stef
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:30 55PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> 12076
>> -----
>>
>> - Issue 2347: Migrating some OS queries from SmalltalkImage to
>> OSPlatform. This changes is really nice since it used the existing Platform
>> classes for that they should.
>> Now do you use Smalltalk os, Smalltalk platform but
>> OSPlatform os
>> OSPlatform platform
>> This way OSPlatform is used for what it should. It would be nice if Squeak
>> would follow this change, else we will add a compatibility package. Thanks
>> Simon Denier.
>>
>>
>> I like these changes that apply OOP thinking to the system. Distribution of
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> Stef
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