Hi,
Indeed, the settings sending unknown messages is a problem, but that is a problem that is not related to Spotter. If you get it with Spotter settings, you will get it with all other settings as well. The settings mechanism should be more robust in my opinion.
Cheers, Doru
On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Damien Cassou damien.cassou@inria.fr wrote:
Hi Tudor,
Tudor Girba tudor@tudorgirba.com writes:
I promised to send a summary of the larger changes that came with the recent integration of GToolkit 3.10. Here it is: http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog/gtoolkit-3-10/
thank you for the detailed changelog. Please pay attention to the Settings system. I have the impression that what you did might forbid you to remove any extension in the future. What I see happening is that:
people start deactivating some extensions through the Settings
they write their Settings in a file so the settings are available for
all images
- in this file, settings are deactivated with Smalltalk code that send
setting-specific messages to specific objects
- you decide to remove an extension and remove the corresponding
setting method
- the user downloads the new Pharo and gets an error because his
setting file sends messages that are not understood anymore.
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