[squeak-dev] Squeak 5.1, saving of Morphic projects is broken

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Fri Aug 26 12:22:56 UTC 2016


Hi Hannes,

any tips how to get at that image and what VM to use? I still use 4.4
for development and later versions just for deployment.

Thanks,

Herbert

Am Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:16:03 +0100
schrieb "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:

> Hello Vaidotas
> 
> It can confirm that Project saving worked again in Squeak 4.6 in
> December 2015 with the fixes applied done by Colin Putney[1]. I did
> some tests then.
> 
> The  64bit image is experimental.
> 
> I just tested Project saving in Squeak 5.1 (32bit image) in MSWindows
> and on Linux. It does not work either. So we need to wait for a VM
> update.
> 
> Regards
> Hannes
> 
> [1] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6218
> <citation>
> With these four changes, it's possible to save and load projects in a
> Squeak 4.6 image. It doesn't work in a trunk image, however. The Spur
> VM crashes when saving a project. I've reported that on the VM list.
> It also fails to load an image segment - looks like the primitive for
> that isn't quite finished in Spur.
> </citation>
> 
> On 8/26/16, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi Vaidotas,
> >
> > according to the end of
> > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6218
> > this is now a VM problem. The image side shold have been solved.
> >
> > From older discussions I remember that environments are too deeply
> > entangled with the guts of Squeak that it's not feasible to remove
> > them again.
> >
> > And then some people may use them.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Herbert
> >
> >  Am Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:46:40 +0300
> > schrieb Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> Project saving is broken. When trying to save Morphic project to
> >> disk on 64bit image on Windows user is locked in the loop of
> >> popping up emergency evaluator, you have to kill Squeak as a OS
> >> process. See the docking bar, the second menu item is the Project
> >> menu. We need to add this to the known Issues session of the 5.1
> >> release notes at least. This bug was pushed with Environments
> >> package since 4.5. Is anyone uses Environments? Can they be
> >> removed? Why Environments is not loadable package? regards,
> >> Vaidotas
> >
> >
> >
> 




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