Then WeakFinalizersTest should be removed from Trunk, shouldn't it?

Bye
Enrico

2010/8/12 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> in latest Trunk (update: 10352) I run all tests and found that
>> ReleaseTest>>testUndeclared
>> is failing due to references to
>>  WeakFinalizationList
>>  WeakFinalizerItem
>> in
>>  WeakFinalizersTest>>testNewFinalizationSupported
>>
>> It seems to me that weak finalization was provided by Igor as a Mantis bug
>> fix
>> (see last email in thread [1] and related mantis bug [2]) but not in
>> Trunk.
>> Maybe remnants of it got in by accident or it has not been completely
>> integrated in Trunk: it is difficult for me to dig further...
>
> IIRC the packages for these classes are in the Inbox, though Igor said he
> will rewrite parts of the image-side code. But to use this new finalization
> mechanism, the VM has to support it. Currently the necessary changes are not
> in the VM trunk. AFAIK Eliot is working on a new garbage collector, which
> may make these changes obsolete.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> Hope it helps
>> Bye
>> Enrico
>>
>> [1]
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150986.html
>> [2] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7473
>> --
>> Enrico Spinielli
>> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"˙˙ Philip K. Dick
>> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."˙˙Mitchel Resnick
>>
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Enrico Spinielli
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
"Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick