Tools for working with ChangeSets
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>
> Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
> Thu Mar 1 14:52:43 UTC 2007
>
> I am trying to file in a changeset that was made
for
> Squeak 3.2,
> but will lock up a 3.8 image when filed in, due to
> changing some
> really deep stuff with in Object (such as
> doesNotUnderstand:).
> So I looked for a way to differentiate between the
> ChangeRecords
> that override an existing method from those that
don't,
> and I
> came across ChangeList.
>
> ChangeList seems to be the object that is created
from
> a .cs
> file, but the class itself seems to be a black box.
For
> instance, there is no obviously correct way to
create a
> ChangeList from a .cs file without popping up the
> change viewer
> tool. to do that, I had to copy the class method
> browseStream:
> to a workspace and did all but the last line
(strangely,
> this class seems to be somehow tied to the UI event
> loop, so
> debugging browseStream: freezes the UI).
>
> Then, once I had a ChangeList without a window, I
was
> able to
> call ChangeList>>changeList to get at the list of
> ChangeRecords
> and sort them like:
>
> dangerous := changeList changeList select: [:each|
> each methodClass ifNil: [false] ifNotNil: [
> each methodClass canUnderstand: each
> methodSelector]]
>
> and similarly for "safe" changes. Now, again, there
is
> now
> obviously correct way to create a ChangeList from
this
> OrderedCollection of ChangeRecords.
>
> The problem is that ChangeList is trying to be both
a
> Model and
> a View (at least that is how it seems to me), and
is
> not doing a
> very good job at either. The tools for ChangeSet
> manipulation
> seem to be much better, and the only difference
that I
> can see is
> that ChangeList handles external code and ChangeSet
> handles
> in-image code.
>
> My questions:
> - Is there some tool that does what I am looking
for?
> - Why the difference between ChangeSet and
ChangeList?
>
> If there is no tools for the task I am attempting,
I
> will just
> keep hacking it.
>
> --
> Matthew Fulmer --
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