Magma test failure

[Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez]

El mié, 09-09-2009 a las 10:00 -0500, Chris Muller escribió:
> Hmm, that this default seems to have disrupted the "one-click" nature
> of the Magma install bugs me.
> 
> My choices are:
> 
>   1) revert the default WriteBarrier setting back to "off"
>   2) include NewCompiler in the Magma install.
>   3) extract the ByteCodeGenerator from NewCompiler package, the only
> class WriteBarrier needs to make use of..
> 
> I'm loathe to do #2, Pharo folks may not want the NewCompiler in their
> image (even though it should be harmless).
> 

Turn it off by default and put the options in the wiki to turn it on.
That way the people that wants it, will install newcompiler in its
image.

> Any opinions?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, sorry about that.  This *should* be mentioned in the documentation
> > (I will update it).
> >
> > To move forward, the choices are either:
> >
> >  1)  install NewCompiler from SqueakMap
> >  2)  Evaluate:  MagmaTestCase allowWriteBarrier: false
> >
> > And restart the test suite.
> >
> > It was a tough choice to turn on WriteBarrier by default, but the the
> > commit-rate can be significantly improved when it is on, and it seems
> > to work, so why not..
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Chris
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> >> Shortly after starting the test _magmaTestclient1.image show
> >> "MagmaUserError: WriteBarrier requires NewCompiler."
> >>
> >> Hmm, I was going to copy the tail end of the Transcript of
> >> _magmaTestConductor into this message, but that image is unresponsive.
> >>
> >> I'm running on Debian GNU/Linux with squeak-vm 3.10.3+svn1902.dfsg-1 and
> >> the 3.10 image downloaded from
> >> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.zip.
> >>
> >> Magma was tested with 3.10.4 (VM).  Is the new compiler something added
> >> with the 3.10.4 release?  I see a package by that name on SM (marked as
> >> very alpha).
> >>
> >>
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