[Cuis-dev] user.changes files

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Bernhard,

On 3/27/2023 6:15 AM, Bernhard Pieber via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Ignore my mail. I was wrong. Obviously, it was already too late yesterday. Only the "End fileIn of“ banner is written there. Now the question is: Is this intended?

Yes. By reviewing a previous user changes you can tell which updates and 
packages were installed. This could be really useful to make sense of 
the user made changes.

> fileInAnnouncing: announcement
> 	"This is special for reading expressions from text that has been formatted
> 	with exclamation delimitors. The expressions are read and passed to the
> 	Compiler. Put up a progress report with the given announcement as the title."
>
> 	Utilities logsUserChanges: false.
>
> 	announcement
> 		displayProgressAt: Sensor mousePoint
> 		from: 0
> 		to: self size
> 		during: [ :barBlock | self fileInInformingTo: barBlock ].
>
> 	"Note:  The main purpose of this banner is to flush the changes file."
> 	Utilities logsUserChanges: true.
> 	Smalltalk logChange: '----End fileIn of ' , self name , '----'.
>
> Should the comment about flushing the changes file apply to both, the .changes and the .user.changes file? Looking at the code the forceToDisk is done for the .changes file.
>
> Cheers,
> Bernhard

Just pushed an update to flush UserChanges on every write. Thanks!

Cheers,

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