[Cuis-dev] [DEFECT] #copyFrom:count: for OrderedCollections

[Juan Vuletich]

On 2/6/2024 2:23 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> ...
> Juan,
>
> consistency-wise, this all makes sense!
>
> In an implementation that is used for real work,
> you should not changes semantics so lightheartedly.
>
> If you really want to do this you should proceed it like this:
>
> For current Cuis 6.3 you should mark these methods,
> as "to be deprecated" (by some means yet to be invented).
>
> For Cuis 6.4 you could mark them as deprecated
> and write messages to the transcript or bother the user/programmer
> with a (Pre)-Debugger.
>
> For Cuis 6.5 or later you may enforce that semantics.
>
> Of course there still will be hue and cry,
> but people had their time to adapt and
> after a lot of complaining, event I would have found
> a way to live with it :)
>
> Now I am in the middle of an important project (money-wise)
> and I have to deal with that – ah, äm, well – shit!
>
>
> I hope you understand,
>
> Gerald

These changes are being done in the Rolling Release. If you expect 
stability, and compatibility issues only when you are ready to face 
them, you'd use the Stable Release.

See 
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Documentation/CuisReleaseProcess.md 
vs. 
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis6-2/blob/main/Documentation/CuisReleaseProcess.md

Thanks,

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