On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:46 06PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> 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
My point exactly. I don't mind SmalltalkImage>>osVersion being deprecated, but the "lightweight lobby" delegate method SmalltalkImage >> os has been deprecated as well... (There is no corresponding SmalltalkImage >> platform as you mentioned) Cheers, Henry _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
