Updates: Status: Invalid Comment #2 on issue 3490 by marianopeck: ConfigurationOfPharo still uses Preferences http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3490 Yes, because of history. It is used by versions and baselines of pharo 1.0 and 1.1. But, as you can see, none of the version/baselines 1.2 use it. So, it is ok.

Comment #4 on issue 3490 by marianopeck: ConfigurationOfPharo still uses Preferences http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3490 rename not, beacause we don't want to touch all the already released versions/baselines. Maybe we didn't choose the best name and we should have called it preloadPharo10 or something like that. But we were learning. Anyway, what both mehtods used to do, I think have not sense any more in 1.2. If this is not the case, then we should create as you say preloadForPharo12 and do that without using Preferences.