Can you show the full trace? Because I am regularly doing something similar 
without any problems.
In fact if I copy/paste your code (and just change the classes that I have) it 
works fine.

Btw. did you override such methods in your system?

Peter

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 07:05:04AM -0700, Brad Selfridge wrote:
> I'm trying to programmatically generate a new class, but am getting the
> following error: 
> 
> DynamicDescriptorSystem class(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand:
> #subclass:instanceVariableNames:classVariableNames:package:
> 
> This is the method that I'm trying to execute: 
> 
> buildNewDescriptorSystemUsing: aDescriptorSystemClassName
> 
>       descriptorSystem := 
>       DynamicDescriptorSystem subclass: aDescriptorSystemClassName asSymbol
>                       instanceVariableNames: ''
>                       classVariableNames: ''
>                       package: packageName asString
> 
> I see examples of this all over Pharo and I copied this code almost
> verbatim. 
> 
> What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> 
> 
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