[Seaside] Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Images] April 2008 versions

[Andreas Raab]

Andrew Tween wrote:
>> "Rob Rothwell" <r.j.rothwell at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:22f158f00804050827y254789fbjb8aac633a782acc4 at mail.gmail.com...
>> This would be great, but I really need FFI for ODBC, and I just can't 
>> get it to load into this image (3.10-7159)...
> 
> please see - http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6952
> 
> There you will find a patch, 
> ClassBuilder-nameinEnvironmentsubclassOftypeinstanceVariableNamesclassVariableNamespoolDictionariescategoryunsafe.st 
> , which, when installed, allows FFI version 3.9.1 to be loaded into the 
> squeak-dev and squeak-web images.

Did you verify whether the result is correct? It is very easy to screw 
up the FFI and the result of those screwups are random crashes in the 
calls. I'm somewhat suspicious about that workaround because I don't see 
where ExternalType>>StructTypes would get installed if it isn't from 
#doneCompiling.

Cheers,
   - Andreas