[BUG] primPathNameDelimiter on Mac OS X varies by VM *and* Box

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jan 17 19:45:40 UTC 2004


hi jack

as far as I know there are two panther VM on mac with : (this is the 
one of John and the icon should be tan)
and one unix with / (this is the one of ian the logo should be blue)

Stef
On 17 janv. 04, at 20:15, Jack Keel wrote:

> Fellow Squeakers,
>
> I'm having problems that seem related to an invalid path name 
> delimiter being returned by primPathNameDelimiter on several VMs.  I 
> did the following test on my G3 Panther box changing only the VM 
> between tests.
>
> Using Squeak 3.5.1Beta4.app, Squeak 3.7.1Beta1.app, Squeak 
> 3.2.8Beta9.app, Squeak 3.6.1Beta5.app  I get the following
>
> FileDirectory pathNameDelimiter        --->  $:
> FileDirectory primPathNameDelimiter ---> $:
> Smalltalk platformName.                        ---> 'Mac OS'
>
>
> Using Squeak-3.6g-2.app I get what I expected.
>
> FileDirectory pathNameDelimiter         ---> $/
> FileDirectory primPathNameDelimiter ---> $/
> Smalltalk platformName.                        ---> 'unix'
>
> Curiously, the Squeak-3.6g-2.app returns the $: on a G4 Jaguar laptop 
> (10.2.8 without the developer tools) and works okay on a G4 laptop 
> (10.2.6 with Developer) and works on a G4 laptop with Panther.  On yet 
> another old G4 tower with 10.2.8 it fails with a "does not understand" 
> (i.e. an entirely different error).
>
> So I have yet to find a VM that works consistently on all my OS X 
> platforms.  And since Squeak-3.6g-2.app doesn't have sound my 
> application is disabled even on the ones that know what the proper 
> delimiter is.
>
> Jack
>
>




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