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

[Gerald Klix]

On 2/6/24 9:01 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> 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,
>
This document does not say anything about bug fixes.
I presume this #copyFrom:count bug will stay in Cuis 6.2 until hell 
freezes over.
Needless to say, that I don't like this either.


Best Regards,

Gerald