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Hi Christoph.<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px">It still wants to know my author initials during installation, this is a bit confusing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px">Good catch! We may want to set those initials to "FFI" when auto-generating methods.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;font-size: 16px">Marcel</span></div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>Am 16.09.2020 13:41:26 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'>
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<p>Hi Marcel,</p>
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<p>thanks for fixing this. The problem was that per some package installed earlier, my main image already contained an older version of FFI. In fact, before I read your replies to this thread, I had fixed the problem in my image by loading the new FFI-Kernel
versions step by step and copying a number of missing methods manually into the image. Not very elegant, but now I can use the latest FFI version in my image. 😅</p>
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<p>I confirm that FFI loads now in a fresh trunk image without any problems, which is great. However, you have to look carefully when you the installation appears to take more than 10 minutes and the progress bars are not changing:</p>
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<p>It still wants to know my author initials during installation, this is a bit confusing.</p>
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<div>We had the discussion about the role of Installer recently on the list. After fixing Metacello (and the script for FFI), the wizard will likely to use "<span style="font-size: 10pt">Metacello new configuration: 'FFI'; load." again to manage support for
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<p style="color:#AAAAAA; margin-top:10px">Am 15.09.2020 20:29:46 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:</p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:27 AM Marcel Taeumel <<a href="mailto:marcel.taeumel@hpi.de" target="_blank">marcel.taeumel@hpi.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>> <span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 16px">In my main image, I tried to load FFI via the Preference Wizard, and after some loading conflicts which
I explicitly needed to #allow through the debugger, I got the same syntax error ...</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 16px">Loading FFI via the Preference Wizard -- which uses the Installer directly -- works fine in current (fresh) trunk. No debuggers to confirm. No syntax error.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14pt">That's good to know. I'll alter my VMMaker image build scripts to use this. But there's one code smell about this. <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">PreferenceWizardMorph is a morph. i wonder if it's worth-while separating
<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12pt">PreferenceWizardMorph into </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12pt">PreferenceWizardMorph and </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12pt">PreferenceWizard. It feels better changing the script
to read </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12pt">PreferenceWizard new installFFI than having it rad </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12pt">PreferenceWizardMorph new installFFI. If you agree that this is OK, I can make the changes.</span></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: 14pt">Hmmm, maybe better is to move these install scripts to the Installer hierarchy. Not sure where they should live. But it would be nice to be able to say </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: 14pt">and have it choose a default path, as well as be able to say</div>
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<p>do you have a description of the correct loading order? In my main image, I tried to load FFI via the Preference Wizard, and after some loading conflicts which I explicitly needed to #allow through the debugger, I got the same syntax error ...</p>
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<div>Hi Christoph,<br>
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loading the Tools subpackage of FFI. I think Marcel has recently split<br>
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Am Mi., 9. Sept. 2020 um 23:50 Uhr schrieb Thiede, Christoph<br>
<<a href="mailto:Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de" target="_blank">Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de</a>>:<br>
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> I fear this could be a frequently discussed topic, but I did not know where to start else.<br>
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> This is at the very least confusing, I think :-) Are there any undocumented dependencies or something like this?<br>
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> If I use the preference wizard instead, the installation succeeds. (It's not very convenient that it asks you for your initials during the installation, but this is only a small critique. :-))<br>
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