>
> :(
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>>
>> Lukas
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > The problem are the external pacakges. I have 100 references to
>> > Preferences in Pharo dev....almost EVERY external package uses Preferences.
>> > So....we really need help of the external package maintainers to update
>> > them. And I am not sure how easy is that.
>> > What should be easy is to have a Preferences class that supports the
>> > simple API that everyone was using: add a preference. And make
>> > Preferenceclass return true or false for that preference. That should be 90%
>> > of all usages, I guess..
>> > We can do that by just having a dictionary and overriding
>> > doesNotUnderstand:. We should not provide all this magic that used to be
>> > there, e.g.compiling on the fly methods for accessed perferences (which
>> > funnily had an empty source pointer...).
>> > I mean...is there a mapping between each previous preference a the new
>> > ones?
>> >
>> >
>> > In 1.1, Preferences are returning the values from the Settings framework
>> > for backward compatibillity.
>> > But I don't think that Preferences added are shown in the Settings? This
>> > would require Settings to be generated, which is possible but I thinknot
>> > really what we want.
>> > One could of course build this specification for the Preferences... and
>> > maybe there was even code there for that ;-) I started the cleanup bu
>> > removingunsent messages... but after a while that got really boring. And
>> > Preferences was a �near 2000 LOC abdomination of a class.
>> > I checked in 1.1Dev, and most of the references are from the Core, which
>> > we removed in 1.2...
>> > �� � Marcus
>> >
>> >
>> > --Marcus Denker
>> > �--�
http://www.marcusdenker.de�<
http://www.marcusdenker.de/>
>> > INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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>>
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