[V3dot10] status

[stephane ducasse]

On 9 mars 07, at 06:52, Ralph Johnson wrote:

> Edgar and I finally have a release that passes all the tests.
>
> Start with 3.9 finel (7067).
> Load http://source.squeakfoundation.org/310/ReleaseBuilder-edc.11.mcz
> Evaluate  ReleaseBuilderFor3dot10 new makeSqueakThreeTenRelease


why do not you publish an cs in the update stream?
>
> Edgar said it took 20 minutes for him; it took four minutes for me.
> All tests are green.
>
> This code initializes the image but also files in a bunch of MC files.

Are they saved in the squeakfoundation repository?

> Most of them are derived from the Make93Green.cs, which fixed a
> lot of the errors and removed the rest of the failing tests.  However,
> we could not load these with the original version of MC because of
> the dreaded "atomic loading" bug.  So, the first MC file that is  
> loaded
> is a patch to MC to implement atomic loading.

Ralph how have you done that?
Did you patch the notification mechanism?
Because this is the back-bone for all the changesets and other change  
oriented tools?
Can we know exactly the changes you did?

> Some of you might
> have seen it in Mantis and know that someone reported a bug.  I  
> haven't
> looked at that yet, but I know that it worked well enough to handle  
> the
> three or four MC files that wouldn't load.
>
> I prefer to load ReleaseBuilder-edc.11.mcz using the MC browser, but
> the browser won't work on the 310 directory because one of the files
> in it has a name that it can't handle.  So, I fixed that bug, too.   
> I think
> the misbehaviro file is a "configuration", and so we are probably  
> using
> the wrong version of MC.  if anybody can tell me the right version to
> use, I would apprecate it.  I made a patch for MC so that it can  
> browse
> the directory.  The patch is called MCFileRepositoryInspector- 
> refresh.st
> and I have attached it to this message.  I expect that if we use  
> the right
> version of MC then we won't have to use it.
>
> Now that we have figured out MC (or almost), we are ready to start
> making changes to the image.  If you know of some Mantis issues that
> are "ripe" for the picking, i.e. there is a fix that has been  
> tested and
> people seem happy with it, please put it at http://wiki.squeak.org/ 
> squeak/5919
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ralph
> <MCFileRepositoryInspector-refresh.st>
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