Versions bug after 2004, 2047, 2048 BigSources

Scott Wallace Scott.Wallace at disney.com
Tue May 23 21:03:03 UTC 2000


Hi, Dave,

The fix went out in update "2166VersionsFix-ar", which perhaps has 
not quite seen the external light of day yet.

   -- Scott


At 4:57 PM -0400 5/23/00, David N. Smith \(IBM wrote:
>The version browser doesn't work for items which exceed the old 
>limits, though the regular browsers work fine. The error is in 
>VersionsBrowser>>#scanVersionsOf: class:meta:category:selector:. It 
>causes a walkback at the third line from the end:
>
>			[file _ sourceFilesCopy at: prevFileIndex]].
>
>where sourceFilesCopy has two elements as expected but prevFileIndex is 4.
>
>Code above this point does computations on the source pointer.
>
>My changes file is 16,844,803 bytes long, having overflowed the old 
>limit while installing a big glob up updates last week. Since then, 
>the VersionsBrowser chokes on any method which is above the 16 meg 
>limit, but everything else seems to work, including the versions 
>browser on methods with no new versions.
>
>The version of VersionsBrowser>>#scanVersionsOf: 
>class:meta:category:selector: is "sw 10/19/1999 15:11". If this was 
>fixed in a later update, it did not load. I had to run the updates 
>from a fresh project with no transcript so I couldn't see errors. 
>(This was to get around my 'hang at 2095 problem of last week). 
>
>There were no updates to VersionsBrowser in 2004, nor in 2047 or 
>2048 (more BigSources updates).
>
>Did I miss an update?
>
>Dave
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>Hawthorne, NY
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