How NOT to move a group of methods to a new package in 5 minutes or less.

>
> 1) Andreas notices some mispackaged messages/methods
> in the Form class
> e.g. Form>>scaledIntoFormOfSize:
> 2) He removes them from the package.
> 3) He repackages them into new Morphic extention
> catagories.
> 4) He gives notice that he is doing this.
> 4a) and places the moved methods on mantis as a
> changeset.
> 6) Stef harvests the new graphics package into Sq7039
> 6a) But not the moved methods.
> 7) Stef publishes 7039 to the ftp site.
> 8) It is down loaded by hopeful users.
> 9) And yellowclicking will not bring up menus because
> the methods are missing.
>
> 10)... a suivre (to be continued).
>
>
> I am sorry. This is not meant a criticism of the
> people involved. Andreas is being rigorous and Stef is
> trying to do a two man job all by himself. This was
> just too good a illustration of my challenge question.
>
> see
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-July/105890.html
>
>
>
> to pass up relating.
>
> How long will it take to move this group of methods?
> How can it be done in 5 minutes or less?
>
> Yours in curiosity, -- Jerome Peace
>
>
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> Peace Jerome wrote:
>> How not to move a group of methods to a new package in
>> 5 minutes or less.
>
> Heh. Good point. This one was a bit of a communication problem. I  
> didn't know that these changes had been made in 3.9a (I only just  
> noticed that there are other changes to ToolBuilder in 3.9a which  
> never made it back to the main repository either) but in order to  
> provide "clean" packages I had to get rid of these methods right  
> away. I guess the only real problem here is order of integration:  
> The bug report(s) should have been dealt with before integrating  
> the latest package version.
>
> As an interim measure, you can simply install the change set from  
> Mantis. For a long term solution help reminding people about the  
> issue so it gets fixed before 3.9 is finalized.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>> 1) Andreas notices some mispackaged messages/methods
>> in the Form class
>> e.g. Form>>scaledIntoFormOfSize:
>> 2) He removes them from the package.
>> 3) He repackages them into new Morphic extention
>> catagories.
>> 4) He gives notice that he is doing this. 4a) and places the moved  
>> methods on mantis as a
>> changeset.
>> 6) Stef harvests the new graphics package into Sq7039 6a) But not  
>> the moved methods.
>> 7) Stef publishes 7039 to the ftp site.
>> 8) It is down loaded by hopeful users.
>> 9) And yellowclicking will not bring up menus because
>> the methods are missing.
>> 10)... a suivre (to be continued).
>> I am sorry. This is not meant a criticism of the
>> people involved. Andreas is being rigorous and Stef is
>> trying to do a two man job all by himself. This was
>> just too good a illustration of my challenge question.
>> see
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-July/ 
>> 105890.html
>> to pass up relating.
>> How long will it take to move this group of methods?
>> How can it be done in 5 minutes or less?
>> Yours in curiosity, -- Jerome Peace
>> __________________________________________________
>> Do You Yahoo!?
>> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around  
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