Hi norbert

Hi,

I really appreciate the existence of the pharo project. For me I declared it as a good starting point for me to dive into the deeper waters of squeak/pharo. My biggest problem is that I do not know how exactly things have to be done. I don't want to just submit changes without to know if the worth it.

I imagine. I wanted to clean the inbox but I had to break some walls in my house this week-end.

A little story. I started last week to toy around with the newest pharo release. On the web site I read that all tests green is a primary goal.

Yes we want that

So I started to let the test runner run all tests. After having some trouble I found a failing test in NumberParsingTest. The test is failing because the test case expects Number>>readFrom: to throw an error if a number couldn't be parsed. Searchig the ST80 book I found nothing about Number>>readFrom:. Searching the web I found a thread on squeak-dev from january where the outcome was:

- readFrom: returns 0 on unsuccesful read attempt to satisfy the parser (sounds like some history thing) - readExactlyFrom: does throw an error an unsuccesful read attempt. And it utilizes sqNumberParser

So what to do? I tried to be least aggressive and fixed the test case to use readExactlyFrom: (and then splitting the test case into two because the test does different things). Not thinking first I would have asked a lot of questions on this list:

- Do we want to preserve the current readFrom: ? - Should we integrate sqNumberParser completely avoiding mulitple implementations? - Is it only me having slightly problems having a class Number which uses a class SqNumberParser instead of integrating the code into the Number hierarchy?

Is there a way to get this questions answered without generating a lot of noise on the list?

I do not know. :) Now for Number related issues I would - have a look at the fix nicolas produced - ask him - discuss that on this mailing-list and also on the squeak-dev mailing-lis

Other questions:

- I scanned the image for obsolete references and found some. I don't know how to deal with it in an update. Using

ServerDirectory resetServers. FileServices removeObsolete. PackageOrganizer default unregisterPackageNamed: 'FlexibleVocabularies'

I have removed all obsolete references but one. How is this integrated into the upstream?

Excellent. For this you can send a cs or simply state it to the mailing-list I will include the expressions in the next release scripts.

- Trying to solve the last obsolete references I found an obsolete class referenced in PasteUpMorph. The method which referenced it is PasteUpMorph>>isSafeToServe. The method is in category Nebraska. I thought Nebraska has been removed from the system.

Yes but apparently this method was not well-categorized.

Thinking that I would have removed all methods of this category but one because they have no senders. One method transferRemoteServerFrom: is referenced from Project>>enter: returningFlag revert: revertFlag saveForRevert: saveForRevert Is it ok to rip this call out (by trying to understand what it does in class Project ;) )

I have the impression :)

Some words of advice would be helpful to get a feeling about those things. I don't have a problem preparing some stuff and put it into the Inbox. A problem would be to have a patch rejected without explanation :)

Sure. My advice is - tests if it make sense - stepwise - careful - discussion on the mailing-list so that other people can have a look and comment. I think that the communication is really key. So reviewing other fixes can really help everybody. So if you go and check the changes in the inbox and comment on them, we will all gain from that. Last time marcus fixes some refs I let. But at the end been two times 2 eyes fixed the problems and we made progress.

Norbert

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