Re: Re: Remove Changes/Sources files in end-user distribution

> As I wrote in the previous message - it takes fixing the decompiler  
> to properly deal with method annotations.
>
> - Bert -
>
> Am 03.02.2006 um 23:40 schrieb Fournier Eric:
>
>> Sorry, bad paste:
>>
>> With the Changes file in place, I see:
>>
>> onPropertyChanged
>> <on: propertyChanged in: player>
>> self player property borderStyle: #none.
>> self signal: #updateEverything
>>
>> I'm wondering what it would take to break this dependency in the  
>> Tweak classes?
>>
>> (I guess I'm creating 'TweakLand' ;-)
>>
>> -- Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Fournier Eric wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>> The question is: can I get away with not including either of  
>>>>>> these files in an installation where some classes/methods will  
>>>>>> be re-compiled via update streams?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some hidden necessity to having these two files  
>>>>>> present in the installation?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No.
>>>>>
>>>>> You might want to look at the Squeakland distribution, it does  
>>>>> not include source files either.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Before relying on this, it would be advisable to remove your  
>>>> source files and *then* recompile the entire system  
>>>> (...recompileAll...).  This should work fine, but I don't know  
>>>> that current maintainers do this kind of stress test (it is  
>>>> demanding of the decompiler) at every release.
>>>>
>>>> - Dan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hm. I start seeing syntax errors as soon as I get into Tweak  
>>> classes. Worked when sources/changes were in place (it's the  
>>> missing changes file).
>>>
>>> The errors are on Tweak annotations like:
>>>
>>> CAssignmentTileCostume>>onPropertyChanged
>>> <on:in:: #(#propertyChanged #player)>
>>> self player property borderStyle: #none.
>>> self signal: #updateEverything
>>>
>>> (second line gets: <on:in> expected ->:: #(#propertyChanged  
>>> #player)>  )
>>>
>>>
>>> With the Changes file in place, I see:
>>>
>>> onPropertyChanged
>>> <on:in:: #(#propertyChanged #player)>
>>> self player property borderStyle: #none.
>>> self signal: #updateEverything
>>>
>>>
>>> So, it seems the changes file is providing some annotation  
>>> syntaxia that goes missing without it, making annotated Tweak  
>>> classes un-compilable.
>>>
>>> Seems to be happy without Sources, however. Thanks for the tip:  
>>> this averted a bad decision.
>>>
>>> -- Eric