I've got to apologise to people on my slow posting of late. I've been so stuck in to work that I've let the habit lapse for a bit :)

I've been working on making 7.2 a go'er for me. I'm in the vw-dev program which gives me access to Cincom's development versions of Smalltalk.

I think I'll write a bit about this experience and why I've found it very valueable.

Firstly, I've discovered that another company apart from the one I work for actually has worse testing habits than us! :) - No I don't mean this in a bad way. The idea with the dev builds is that they go out every week on the week, regardless of major hiccups. This, naturally, is not what they do for an actual production release. BUT, on the same note, you'd think some of the bugs that pop up in the dev builds would have been caught sooner. Even some cursory testing would reveal the obvious crashes.

Non obvious crashes! Oh yes, I love these - not. My software would load up from store fine, then I'd try to use the system and rather quickly, bamf, the whole thing would lock up with a zillion debuggers. Why? Well, it turns out that the parcel HashesBase, which is now part of Security, no longer contains doWithIndex: - I find this fascinating, as it is in the base for VisualAge Smalltalk. Both With:Style and TypeLess are currently broken because this method no longer exists. I'm going to request that it is added in to the VisualWorks base.

A part from that, James has accepted my two .zip files for the ThreePaneSelectorsBrowser and the HyperCodeHighlighting (this one is really cool, give it a go!). (HECK! I think they're both really cool ;> but I'm biased). The only thing I have left to release is TypeLess. David Murphy said he was going to do that, so my fingers are still crossed. I shall at least add in the doWithIndex: override so he doesn't sit there scratching his head for weeks.