On 27 Jan 2010, at 07:24, Andreas Raab wrote:

> keith wrote:
>> MC1.5 has quite a few users out there, anyone who uses LPF, which  
>> included Randal for a start.
>> I would expect MC1.5 to be stable enough, this is the one with the  
>> atomic loading preference turned OFF.
>> The email you reference above is referring to MC1.6  
>> (MCPackageLoader2) this is the experimental, atomic loading loader,  
>> which everyone knows isn't finished, no one ever claimed it was  
>> stable. We only ever claimed it would be really worth finishing and  
>> I had been asking for help with for more than 18 months, because it  
>> is not my area of expertise at all, and Matthew had got stuck afaik.
>> So the point being, if you test the wrong thing, you wont get the  
>> results you hoped for.
>
> I tested what I what I was told by the best authority at hand. How  
> does one load and test the "right" thing?
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

It sounds like you loaded the right thing. You just need to turn the  
"useAtomicLoading" preference off, this uses MCPackageLoader1b, the  
non atomic loading code.

Keith