On 31 December 2010 11:03, Nicolas Cellier <[email protected]> wrote: > On the other hand, if old packages are usefull, they should be > maintained and upgraded. > > If Pharo wants to remove these deprecated methods, an alternative > policy is to move deprecated methods in a separate backward > compatibility package. >
+1 I would call it 'Pharo-Cruft' :) > Nicolas > > 2010/12/31 Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, John McIntosh wrote: >> >>> Well the question as pointed out was does this vm support weak object >>> finalization? and since all closure vm support finalization, then >>> asking the question was mute, so it was ditched. Sophie from the 2003 >>> era had to ask. >> >> The need for the check it outdated, but the method is still sent by external >> packages. With proper deprecation policy the method would be still >> available. It would simply return true and raise a deprecation warning. >> >> >> Levente >> >>> >>> >>> On 12/30/10, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hopefully that can eventually be said as "backward compatibility with >>>> good >>>> stuff is a priority for Pharo." Moving targets are perhaps best left >>>> moving for now. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Levente Uzonyi >>>> [[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:13 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] WeakArray>>isFinalizationSupported >>>> >>>> (or so) which is unrelated. The method was removed during a "cleanup". >>>> And >>>> as you know, backwards compatibility is not a priority for Pharo. >>>> >>>> >>>> Levente >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> =========================================================================== >>> John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> >>> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com >>> >>> =========================================================================== >>> >>> >> >> > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
