[squeak-dev] Bogus Class Category in 3.10.1-7175 - Mantis #7070
Ken Causey
ken at kencausey.com
Thu May 29 19:49:27 UTC 2008
I took Nicolas' fix and modified and extended it a bit and added it
prominently as a DO-IT along with a simple note to the Welcome window
and replaced the copies on the FTP site.
Ken
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:59 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> Note that in the released 3.10.1-7175 you will find a category called
> #Morphic-CandidatesForGo. Do NOT click any of the classes listed in
> that category as they are not really there but removed in 3.10-7159.
> The result is an annoying, seemingly unstoppable, series of debug
> prompts. I made a mistake when building 3.10.1-7175, you can look at
>
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7070
>
> For more of the gorey details.
>
> My point with this email, other than to apologize, is to ask what I
> should do. First note that this issue is related to my pre-release
> cleanup and is not due to any changeset in the update stream. Take a
> 3.10-7159 and update it to 3.10.1-7175 and you will not have this
> problem.
>
> The first solution might be to simply build a replacement
> 3.10.1-7175-basic.zip without the problem and replace the copy on the
> FTP site. However I don't think that would be a good idea. Having
> spent a lot of time over the years helping users with issues I know how
> confusing it can be to try to replicate an issue and one of the keys is
> being able to start with the same image. Imagine a user has downloaded
> my faulty release and is experiencing this problem and is confused.
> Imagine also a helpful person who wants to assist them with this
> problem. The helper finds out they are using 3.10.1-7175 and downloads
> it from the FTP site. Unfortunately this helper has not heard of this
> issue and tries the newer 3.10.1-7175 image and is unable to replicate
> the problem. Substitute appropriately modified "Who's on First"
> variant; hilarity ensues at least if you are not a participant.
>
> So, I started a Known Issues list at
>
> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/KNOWNISSUES
>
> that prominently features this issue. I would like to provide a
> workaround of some kind there and I would appreciate any insights into a
> code snippet to address this issue in 3.10.1-7175 that I can provide as
> a workaround.
>
> Otherwise the only other solution I can think of is to yet again start
> on a quick fix release and call it 3.10.2. Thoughts?
>
> I apologize for this mistake, I can only hope (unrealistically) that was
> my only one. Clearly having someone jump into a release branch as I
> have done here, without the proper knowledge, has consequences.
>
> Ken
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