On 30 March 2013 18:44, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 06:33:58PM +0100, Max Leske wrote:
>>
>> On 29.03.2013, at 02:26, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:28:44PM +0100, Martin Dias wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> We are happy to announce Fuel 1.9.
>> >>
>> >> Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization
>> >> framework developed in Pharo. You can find more information on our website
>> >> [1].
>> >>
>> >> The default set of packages of this version already comes in Pharo 2.0, so
>> >> you it's not necessary to install it there. However, Fuel also works
>> >> out-of-the-box in Pharo from 1.1 up to 2.0, as well as in Squeak 4.1 up to
>> >> 4.4. You can see our documentation [2] for complete installation and use
>> >> guides.
>> >
>> > Fuel is a very nice piece of work and I appreciate the effort to support Squeak.
>> > Good design, good implementation, good documentation, what's not to like :-)
>> >
>> > One issue in loading from Metacello #stable, FLBenchmarks class>>generateMiniSerializationVersionsComparison has this:
>> >
>> >     Array with: 1 with: #1 with: '1'.
>> >
>> > But for Squeak in needs to be:
>> >
>> >     Array with: 1 with: #'1' with: '1'.
>>
>> Thanks Dave, fixed that one.
>>
>> >
>> > I can't run the tests in Squeak, but the Fuel package itself seems fine.
>> >
>>
>> Why can't you run the tests? Does something not work as expected?
>>
>
> I did not look too closely, but I think it's just Squeak/Pharo variations in
> the tests themselves. For example 'SystemVersion current major' seems to be
> a Pharo idiom.

Yes, that's changed between 4.4 and 4.5. So the tests that pass in 4.4
don't pass in 4.5.

frank

> Dave
>
>> > For RemoteTask (in package CommandShell) I can do "RemoteTask useFuelSerializer"
>> > and all works as expected, with cooperating images exchanging serialized objects
>> > with Fuel.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
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