I just wanted to let you all know that I retried to build a 3.7 full
image, this time from the 3.7gamma image. I ran into the same problem as
yesterday. (See my mail with the subject: [BUG] MessageNotUnderstood:
UndefinedObject>>readStringLineFrom: when loading 3.7 Full Assembler.)
For a detailed description of what I did, see below.

I would not be surprised if it's a stupid error on my part. Can anyone
successfully build a full image? If so, how?

I understand that everyone is impatient to get the 3.7 release out.
However, I really think that it is even more important that 3.7 - and I
mean 3.7 full - is a stable release, without any known bugs. If that
takes more time, I am for postponing the release. What do others think?

Thanks for your support!

Bernhard

I did the following:
1. I downloaded and extracted Squeak3.7b-5967.zip from
ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7beta/.
2. I extracted Squeak-Win32-3.6.2-VM.zip to the image directory.
3. I copied SqueakV3.sources from my 3.7beta directory.
4. I started the image and loaded the latest code updates. When prompted
whether I wanted to go to 3.8alpha I selected no to stay at 3.7gamma.
5. I saved the image and loaded the latest code updates for 3.7gamma.
There were none.
6. I opened the SqueakMap Package Loader.
7. I selected the package 3.7 Full Assembler and install. A workspace
which told me to execute the following script:
8. FullImageTools new do. After some activity I got a debugger. See my
mail with the subject: [BUG] MessageNotUnderstood:
UndefinedObject>>readStringLineFrom: when loading 3.7 Full Assembler.
(9. Mail out bug report opened a second debugger btw.)

dway at mailcan.com wrote:
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 02:41:04 -0400
> From: dway at mailcan.com
> Subject: [UPDATES] Upgrade to 3.7gamma/3.8alpha, plus 3 more
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> delivery-date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:41:54 +0200
> envelope-to: celeste at pieber.com
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> 
> Whew!  Here are a few final updates for 3.7beta, plus the prompt to
> upgrade to 3.7gamma or 3.8alpha.
> 
> The other updates are a simple guard-clause addition fix from Ned, which
> should be safe.  Also, a couple of UI default changes resulting from the
> earlier UI poll on the squeakpeople site.  This sets the default setting
> of #browseWithDragNDrop to true, but doesn't actually turn on the
> preference for those updating.  The gamma candidate/final 3.7 image
> preferences will be based on the defaults, though, so it will be turned
> on there.
> 
> I'm going to put together the actual gamma candidate image and put it on
> the ftp site tomorrow, that's not ready quite yet.  3.7final will be
> released in 2 weeks, assuming the gamma candidate is okay.
> 
> 3.8alpha is now open for business... Michael and Yoshiki have been
> promised that the m17n stuff will go in first, which will probably be a
> series of changesets.  Then all the other pending approved changes for
> 3.8alpha will go in.
> 
> - Doug
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> 5973TerminateProcessInNilFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 21 June 2004
> Adds a guard in Process>>terminate to deal with terminated processes
> whose suspendedContext is nil.
> 
> 5974SetTwoUIDefaultPrefs-dew -- Doug Way -- 17 July 2004
> A couple of DoIts which set the default value for preferences
> #browseWithDragNDrop and #scrollBarsNarrow to true.  See the UI Defaults
> vote on SqueakPeople site.  (#scrollBarsNarrow has been set to true in
> the 3.7alpha/beta image for a while now.)
> (These defaults don't appear to be defined in source code anywhere...
> they're only in the Preferences dictionary.)"
> (Preferences preferenceAt: #browseWithDragNDrop) defaultValue: true.
> (Preferences preferenceAt: #scrollBarsNarrow) defaultValue: true.
> 
> 5975FixedScrollbarWidth-dew -- Doug Way -- 16 July 2004
> Make scrollbar width no longer be dependent on default text font size. 
> (See UI Defaults vote on SqueakPeople site.)"
> 
> 5976advanceToGammaOr38-dew -- Doug Way -- 17 July 2004
> This is the last update for version 3.7beta.  In its postscript is an
> executable statement that will set the version forward to either
> 3.7gamma or 3.8alpha, at user option."
> 
> 
> 
> 
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