Squeak How-To:
Last updated at 2:19 pm UTC on 16 January 2006
(This page is probably redundant with the Squeak Cookbook page, and should be Refactoring Browsered into it.)
The On-going Dialogue
Squeak How-To: Updating my Image
Q: I have a copy of your BobsUIv2.cs.gz (and the version 3.0 update). How do I install this into the image I am currently using?
R: You have two possible options:
1. Use these two files.
- open a file list (the pink window)
- select the BobsUIv2.cs.gz in the file list
- from the menu on the list of files, choose 'decompress to file'
- this will create BobsUIv2.cs. select it in the list of files.
- from the menu choose 'file into new change set'
- select the version 3 update stuff in the file list
- from the menu choose 'file into new change set'
2. Use the project on BSS.
- Click the 'Find' button on the orange navigator strip
- when the blue file dialog appears, select 'Bobs SuperSwiki' on the left side
- when the list of projects appears on the right, select BobsUIv2 (should be near the top)
- click the OK button on the blue file picker.
Squeak How-To: Updating versions
Q: How do versions work? If I have an image that I have been using (and adding to) for 3.0, but then I want to upgrade to 3.1, do I have to make a use a 3.1 image, and if so, can I just upload my changes file from my older image into the 3.1 image and in that way hang on to all new code that I have added?
R: You can (in theory) do it either way.
You file out all your code changes as change set(s) and then file them into a 3.1 image.
You can simply request updates from the 3.0 image and go all the way to a current 3.1.
There are some problems with the second approach, however. The servers providing updates got mangled a few months ago and they may not have been restored with all the requisite updates, so the first may be the only one that will work in this case.
