Thanks Colin! On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Colin Putney <colin@wiresong.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>wrote:

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I just stumbled across Monticello's MCPatcher and the Backport button which claims to apply a partial delta to the ancestor of a package. Does anyone who understands this code know if the code supports loading a package, without installing it, applying a partial set of changes (i.e. the relevant changes form the bootstrap) and saving the package as an mcz? If it does then I could construct patched versions of the three packages and substitute them in the bootstrap instead of using the hack.

Yeah, that ought to work fine. There's no way to do it through the GUI, but a bit of workspace hackery should do the trick.

Here's a working example that patches a single method: | fn fs version method patch ancestry newVersion | fn := '/Users/eliot/Glue/repositories/spurnsboot/smalltalk/Kernel.newspeak-bwesterg.682.mcz'. fs := FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: fn. version := [((MCVersionReader readerClassForFileNamed: fn) on: fs fileName: fn) version] ensure: [fs close]. method := SpurBootstrap class >> #ProtoObjectPROTOTYPEscaledIdentityHash. patch := MCPatch operations: {MCAddition of: (MCMethodDefinition className: #ProtoObject classIsMeta: false selector: #scaledIdentityHash category: #comparing timeStamp: method timeStamp source: (method getSourceFromFile asString allButFirst: 20))}. ancestry := MCWorkingAncestry new addAncestor: version info. newVersion := MCVersion package: version package info: (ancestry infoWithName: 'Kernel.newspeak.spur-bwesterg.682.mcz' message: 'Kernel.newspeak-bwesterg.682.mcz patched for Spur') snapshot: (MCPatcher apply: patch to: version snapshot) dependencies: {}. (MCDirectoryRepository new directory: fs directory) storeVersion: newVersion -- best, Eliot