3.9-7061 showstopper bug - Mantis #5231

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 07:39:53 UTC 2006


Yes
I would really like to stop. So I'm going over a final RC2 slowly  
starting now and waiting for the traits fix.
And we should STOP 3.9.

After I have no problem to work on 3.10 but we should stop and  
release 3.9

Stef


On 13 oct. 06, at 09:21, Marcus Denker wrote:

>
> On 13.10.2006, at 01:38, tim Rowledge wrote:
>
>> I consider this to be a showstopper:-
>>
>> open a workspace
>> type in some random stuff
>> add a line
>> 	'3+4'
>> and print it on the '3+4'
>> Now use menu->changes->recent log file... to see what got put in  
>> the changes log.
>>
>> Whoops! Everything in the workspace up to the code printit'd is  
>> logged.
>> If you put some evaluable in the middle of the workspace and  
>> printit, again you get everything up to the printit.
>>
>> We can't let this go out for general use - it will fill the  
>> changes log much faster than anyone could ever expect and would  
>> completely break the logic of recovering your state by executing  
>> the recent changes file since many things would get repeated  
>> repeatedly. Not to mention, the entire text in the recovered file  
>> up to the chunk being evaluated would get logged *again*.
>>
>
> This does not seem to be 3.9 specific, as there was a fix for that  
> in squeakland...
> I did not merge 3 of 150 changesets, and this is one of those:
>
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=3331
>
> Change Set: twoFixes-sw
> Date: 12 November 2005
> Author: Scott Wallace
>
> Fixes the bug that logged the entire contents of a text pane up  
> through the end of the current selection, rather than only the  
> current selection, when logging a do-it to the changes.
>
> ------
>
> If this is in 3.8, too, then by definition it is not a show  
> stopping bug. (As the show was not stopped with 3.8). So this would  
> need to be checked.
>
>      Marcus
>




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