On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Chris wrote:

> On 23/07/2012 07:58, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>> On Jul 22, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Chris wrote:
>> 
>>> One area I see some beginners struggle with image development is with 
>>> regards to losing work, and I feel that Pharo's recovery log could be 
>>> improved to help with this.
>> yes :)
>> Now that we have ring we should start rethinking source management but this 
>> will not be for 2.0
>> except if somebody come up with a good and working solution.
>> 
>>> Two scenarios that come to mind are firstly where methods are filed in that 
>>> created an instance variable at method save the first time round. These log 
>>> to the transcript that the variable is now undeclared, but that can go 
>>> unseen, and the result is things appearing to work while you only have one 
>>> instance of that object. Could this bring up a similar prompt maybe? 
>>> Another difficulty is that you can not simply file in all selections as any 
>>> do-it's which were done in a different context will fail. Is there any way 
>>> we can differentiate the important do-it's such as class definitions, 
>>> selector removes and so on from the rest?
>> I would really like to have a structured logger and not just a flow of text.
>> 
> 
> That sounds great for the long term, but was wondering if there were any good 
> ideas in the meantime! I could only think of applying do-it's if it starts 
> with a class name for example.

yes if you have some hacks like that send them and we will probably introduce 
them.

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