Migration Guide


Moving your applications to the new library

This section covers how to migrate applications developed using previous versions of VisualAge Smalltalk to the Version 5.5 library by importing them from the old library.

Before you install VisualAge Smalltalk Version 5.5, do the following:

  1. Version and release all open editions of classes and subapplications, and version the applications.
  2. Save to files any text from workspaces or from the Transcript window that you want to keep.

After you complete the install, you can then import your work from the earlier release's VisualAge Smalltalk library into the VisualAge Smalltalk Version 5.5 library at any time. It is recommended that you import your configuration maps and applications into the new Version 5.5 library using the normal IBM Smalltalk browsers. The IBM Smalltalk User's Guide explains how to version and import applications and configuration maps.

Tips
To quickly move your applications, you might put them into one or more configuration maps while working in an image from an earlier release, and then, while working in the Version 5.5 image, import the configuration maps into the Version 5.5 library.


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