Hi Stephane!
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?st=E9phane_ducasse?= ducasse@iam.unibe.ch wrote:
You ask and ye shall receive. I have asked numerous times for help in maintaining SM but have gotten ZERO replies earlier.
Certainly a miscommunication problem :)
Ehmmmm... no. I have communicated quite clearly but noone has ever stepped up. Simle as that. So in short - until someone actually *does* step up - stop complaining about maintenance.
Now apparently you want to help me and great, I am adding you as a co-maintainer and will send you write access to the server.
There is a downside of "maintained" packages: Nothing happens with Network for 3 Months,
Things did happen a bit (at least *I* did a few fixes) but I didn't get around to "zipping it all up". I think I explained it in detail if someone wanted to do the picking - but if noone does then I will eventually get around to it.
Goran this would be good to have a list of fixes and also beasts to beat to death and ask for help.
I posted at least to the Network list (probably can be found in the I/O team archives today).
we have not seen a Unix vm build since three years,
That is true and a bit worrying. Do we have any suggestions on who to pick that up? I can picture a few names in my head - but have no idea about interest.
and SqueakMap is broken for 3 Months.
"broken" is a bit harsh - yes, it flunks in the current 3.9alpha or beta, but not in 3.8 AFAIK.
I got a lot a problem with the students (may be because they are behind firewall) But they get this wlkaback on error .... or should throw away the squeakmap file. I would really like (if possible) to get it fixed in 3.9.
Sorry but I need more specifics than that. :)
Now, if/when you fix it btw - make sure that the "SqueakMap" package (the script) picks the correct release of base and also - check that your fix works back in 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 too.
Otherwise I will give it a shot (as I think I said the other day) tonight.
Please.... this would be great to have it in 3.9a.
Ok, I sat down last night and spent a few hours (!) on getting SM into shape for 3.9. It turned out to be more work if doing it properly. SM has been modified quite a bit inside the 3.9 image and that code is based on a pretty old SM version and unfortunately it contained lots of "old removed code" and tons of modifications caused by automatic conversion of underscore to :=.
Now - one question regarding that last part: Why did you replace *all* underscores in the source with ":=" ?!? I saw at least one method in which underscores *inside my String literals* had been replaced. Ouch.
Anyway, now you know I am working on this and hopefully I will get it out today or this weekend. I want to update the server to use the same code as the clients do, I don't want to be out of synch and I definitely don't want clients running different Squeak versions to use different code.
regards, Göran