[ANN] Squeak3.9g-7054...

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 16 20:55:57 UTC 2006


In fact more
	"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Something wrong in condenseSources with traits. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh

Stef

> Oops.
> Thanks
>
> Stef
>
>>
>> There's something very wrong with the sources or changes file.
>> - take a Squeak3.9g-7054 image with SqueakV39.sources
>> - open a brower on TraitDescription
>> - display the method #addSelector:withMethod:notifying:
>>
>> -> oops decompiled code!
>>
>> There are several of these methods. You can find them by loading the
>> NewCompiler and recompiling the image. The reported problemMethods  
>> are
>> the ones with missing source.
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>> 2006/8/14, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>:
>>> Let us Andreas propose a solution because he is the main packager of
>>> FFI.
>>> Else I will roll back to 7053 and ship 3.9 with FFI
>>>
>>> > Ok - FFI support is removed. But how to get it back? I havent  
>>> found
>>> > the Monticello packages on the usual places (PackageLoader/ 
>>> SqueakMap,
>>> > SqueakSource.com)
>>> >
>>> > I was lucky to see the mcz still be available from
>>> > http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/ but it was not loadable
>>> > in the first place.
>>>
>>> What was the problem?
>>>
>>> > If one wants to use SQLite, ODBC, ExternalWebBrowser, ... FFI is
>>> > required.
>>> >
>>> > Any newbee loading one of these packages using PackageLoader will
>>> > run into
>>> > trouble, declare Squeak as useless and will soon delete Squeak  
>>> from
>>> > it's harddisk!
>>> > This will definitely not help the community to grow - instead we
>>> > may end
>>> > up with only a few people (most of them burned out like Marcus) :(
>>>
>>> agreed
>>>
>>> > I feel a little bit sad that there is no reliable process behind
>>> > all that -
>>> > next time we may decide to remove Morphic in the last minute.
>>>
>>> We tried.
>>> But this is difficult when the communication between people is  
>>> not easy.
>>>
>>> > There may be reasons for Andreas to get FFI removed (IMHO I agree
>>> > that FFI
>>> > should not be a part of the base image) but why speak up so late?
>>> >
>>> > Dont know how usefull the initial "Release Plan for 3.9" really
>>> > was ...
>>> > (see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645)
>>>
>>> At least it was for us as a goal and we are pretty there. No?
>>>
>>> > However - I'm happy that a new version is out. :)
>>> > Thanks for all the hard work!
>>> >
>>> > bye
>>> > Torsten
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
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