Broken Squeak Map downloads?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Apr 18 09:16:47 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:44:05AM +0200, goran at krampe.se wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > When I try to download certain SqueakMap packages, including VMMaker, AioPlugin, and
> > XDisplayControlPlugin, I am getting errors. Others work fine, including OSProcessPlugin.
> > Did something break and/or change recently to cause this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> 
> I will take a look later tonight. I think I know why the server cache
> isn't working - it is because asString36 is broken in 3.8+ - it
> needlessly (nowadays) chops off the first 4 characters of the string. I
> think this is one of the issues at least.

Thanks!

> But... having the SHA sums fail on the original URL is... well, not
> sure. Have you modified the files "in place" after registering the
> releases on SM? You can force SM to recalculate the SHA sum by changing
> the file name of the URL. So if you change it to "whatever" and then
> back to the original it should be re-downloaded into the server cache
> and re-calculated. I should add a button somewhere to do this manually.
> :)

I don't know about VMMaker, but the other two packages I mentioned are
files on a Swiki. I have not changed them, but the Swiki occasionally
gets repaired following vandalism attacks, so they might have been
reloaded from backups without me knowing it, or some such thing.

BTW, I did not know about this until somebody mentioned it to me, so
there could easily be other packages with broken SqueakMap links that
the maintainers do not know about. I suspect that VMMaker is one of
them, but there may be others.

Dave




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