Julian Fitzell wrote:
> So I started building myself a new Seaside deployment image only to find 
> it didn't work.
> 
> I had update my image to 3.4gamma and run an .st file that we always run 
> to clean up the image and set a few prefs, etc.  After an embaressingly 
> long time (some of Seaside's low level games seemed to be preventing my 
> from getting errors) I discovered the problem was with getting a new UUID.
> 
> So the reason for the problem is that Smalltalk>>discardSoundAndSpeech 
> discards DigitalSignatureAlgorithm>>randomBitsFromSoundInput: which is 
> now needed on Windows to generate a UUID as far as I understand it.
> 
> So can that method be left and the rest of the sound stuff discarded? Or 
> do I need to keep all the sound stuff in my image just to get a UUID?
> 
> Secondly, I was trying another image which had gone through the same .st 
> cleanup script which worked fine on linux and OSX (the image upgrade and 
> cleanup script were done on OSX).  And when I do "UUID new" in that 
> image (running on Windows) I get a dialog saying "#dev#random does not 
> exist" and asking me to choose another name or cancel.
> 
> So why is the behaviour different depending on whether I upgraded the 
> image and removed the code on OSX or on windows?  Doesn't make for very 
> portable images...
> 
> Anyone know anything about this?

Replying to my own post, digging some more I found out that the UUID 
generation is supposed to fall back on some other method if the sound 
system isn't available... but this doesn't seem to be happening.

UUIDGenerator>>makeSeedFromSound uses #ifCurtailed: but for whatever 
reason that doesn't seem to be working.  Changing it to "on: Exception 
do: ..." makes it work for me, but I remember some discussion on the 
list a while ago about using #ifCurtailed: being the correct way to do 
things.  What am I missing?  Why doesn't this work?

Julian


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