Re: Ad-hoc final harvesting for 3.4

Doug Way <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Pair wrote:

> I think the attached change to Semaphore>>critical: should be included
> (it simplifies the method and removes unnecessary code).

(someone else will have to test this one, I'm not that familiar with 
this code)

> Also, I don't see on this list Ned's fix to FileDirectory>>exists (part
> of "MoreFileFixes" that he posted to the list on Nov 30)...that fix is
> critical (for Windows users at least).  I've attached the correct
> version of this method (as agreed upon on the list).  Ned's change set
> includes more than this one fix; so if you don’t want to pull his entire
> change set, at least include the version of #exists that I've attached
> to this email.

Ah, this one is already in the SqC "internal" update stream (soon to be 
the Guides internal update stream), so it's already been included.

Actually, if you ever need to peek at what is currently in the internal 
update stream, so you won't be lobbying for something that's already 
included, you can check this page:

http://www.squeaklet.com/updates/external/updates/

(this is a trick I learned about a year ago. :-) )

- Doug
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