Breaking Metacello in Pharo 6: Not good. Revert: +1

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
we need to revert.
this is a huge mess in a very inappropriate moment :)

Esteban

> On 14 Nov 2016, at 13:56, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Indeed, I forgot that #selector is doing something else. This is a bit of a mess. Either we revert it today, or we leave it. Otherwise, more projects will adopt the new API only to break again afterwards.
>
> Doru
>
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferlicot@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 14/11/2016 13:44, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please do not revert the API. Just comment out the deprecation. The code in Moose was already updated to the new API and I presume other projects might be in the same situation.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Doru
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Changing the API without a deprecation phase is bad. This kind of
>> breaking change without warning is something companies can fear. This is
>> even more important when there is such a dangerous change. #selector is
>> still here but do something different��� This is bad to just change it in
>> one go.
>>
>> Maybe some projects updated but most companies do not follow the
>> development version of Pharo.
>>
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>> Cyril Ferlicot
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