On Sunday, August 15, 2010, Marcus Denker <
marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
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> On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
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> But I think we should add back a Preferences class for allowing to load old code. (it's referenced
> in the class side initialize in old code often...)
difficult and less functional. People should not use outdated code,
and if they do they should be able to fix it themselves.
I am fixing right now the remaining references in OB and Shout (RB and
eCompletion are already fixed).
Lukas
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> 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?
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> 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...
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