[UPDATES] Upgrade to 3.7gamma/3.8alpha, plus 3 more

Bruce ONeel edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Jul 22 13:09:05 UTC 2004


Hi,

I get the same problem with 3.6-3 solaris vm, but, it works with the 
3.2-5 solaris vm.

cheers

bruce

Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:06:38 +0100
> From: Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
> Subject: Re: [UPDATES] Upgrade to 3.7gamma/3.8alpha, plus 3 more
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Cc: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
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> I just wanted to let you all know that I retried to build a 3.7 full
> image, this time from the 3.7gamma image. I ran into the same problem as
> yesterday. (See my mail with the subject: [BUG] MessageNotUnderstood:
> UndefinedObject>>readStringLineFrom: when loading 3.7 Full Assembler.)
> For a detailed description of what I did, see below.
> 
> I would not be surprised if it's a stupid error on my part. Can anyone
> successfully build a full image? If so, how?
> 
> I understand that everyone is impatient to get the 3.7 release out.
> However, I really think that it is even more important that 3.7 - and I
> mean 3.7 full - is a stable release, without any known bugs. If that
> takes more time, I am for postponing the release. What do others think?
> 
> Thanks for your support!
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> I did the following:
> 1. I downloaded and extracted Squeak3.7b-5967.zip from
> ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7beta/.
> 2. I extracted Squeak-Win32-3.6.2-VM.zip to the image directory.
> 3. I copied SqueakV3.sources from my 3.7beta directory.
> 4. I started the image and loaded the latest code updates. When prompted
> whether I wanted to go to 3.8alpha I selected no to stay at 3.7gamma.
> 5. I saved the image and loaded the latest code updates for 3.7gamma.
> There were none.
> 6. I opened the SqueakMap Package Loader.
> 7. I selected the package 3.7 Full Assembler and install. A workspace
> which told me to execute the following script:
> 8. FullImageTools new do. After some activity I got a debugger. See my
> mail with the subject: [BUG] MessageNotUnderstood:
> UndefinedObject>>readStringLineFrom: when loading 3.7 Full Assembler.
> (9. Mail out bug report opened a second debugger btw.)
> 
> dway at mailcan.com wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 02:41:04 -0400
> > From: dway at mailcan.com
> > Subject: [UPDATES] Upgrade to 3.7gamma/3.8alpha, plus 3 more
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > delivery-date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:41:54 +0200
> > envelope-to: celeste at pieber.com
> > reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> > 
> > 
> > Whew!  Here are a few final updates for 3.7beta, plus the prompt to
> > upgrade to 3.7gamma or 3.8alpha.
> > 
> > The other updates are a simple guard-clause addition fix from Ned, which
> > should be safe.  Also, a couple of UI default changes resulting from the
> > earlier UI poll on the squeakpeople site.  This sets the default setting
> > of #browseWithDragNDrop to true, but doesn't actually turn on the
> > preference for those updating.  The gamma candidate/final 3.7 image
> > preferences will be based on the defaults, though, so it will be turned
> > on there.
> > 
> > I'm going to put together the actual gamma candidate image and put it on
> > the ftp site tomorrow, that's not ready quite yet.  3.7final will be
> > released in 2 weeks, assuming the gamma candidate is okay.
> > 
> > 3.8alpha is now open for business... Michael and Yoshiki have been
> > promised that the m17n stuff will go in first, which will probably be a
> > series of changesets.  Then all the other pending approved changes for
> > 3.8alpha will go in.
> > 
> > - Doug
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > 5973TerminateProcessInNilFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 21 June 2004
> > Adds a guard in Process>>terminate to deal with terminated processes
> > whose suspendedContext is nil.
> > 
> > 5974SetTwoUIDefaultPrefs-dew -- Doug Way -- 17 July 2004
> > A couple of DoIts which set the default value for preferences
> > #browseWithDragNDrop and #scrollBarsNarrow to true.  See the UI Defaults
> > vote on SqueakPeople site.  (#scrollBarsNarrow has been set to true in
> > the 3.7alpha/beta image for a while now.)
> > (These defaults don't appear to be defined in source code anywhere...
> > they're only in the Preferences dictionary.)"
> > (Preferences preferenceAt: #browseWithDragNDrop) defaultValue: true.
> > (Preferences preferenceAt: #scrollBarsNarrow) defaultValue: true.
> > 
> > 5975FixedScrollbarWidth-dew -- Doug Way -- 16 July 2004
> > Make scrollbar width no longer be dependent on default text font size. 
> > (See UI Defaults vote on SqueakPeople site.)"
> > 
> > 5976advanceToGammaOr38-dew -- Doug Way -- 17 July 2004
> > This is the last update for version 3.7beta.  In its postscript is an
> > executable statement that will set the version forward to either
> > 3.7gamma or 3.8alpha, at user option."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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