[ANN] Squeak3.9g-7054...

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 16 20:53:24 UTC 2006


Oops.
Thanks

Stef

>
> There's something very wrong with the sources or changes file.
> - take a Squeak3.9g-7054 image with SqueakV39.sources
> - open a brower on TraitDescription
> - display the method #addSelector:withMethod:notifying:
>
> -> oops decompiled code!
>
> There are several of these methods. You can find them by loading the
> NewCompiler and recompiling the image. The reported problemMethods are
> the ones with missing source.
>
> Philippe
>
>
> 2006/8/14, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>:
>> Let us Andreas propose a solution because he is the main packager of
>> FFI.
>> Else I will roll back to 7053 and ship 3.9 with FFI
>>
>> > Ok - FFI support is removed. But how to get it back? I havent found
>> > the Monticello packages on the usual places (PackageLoader/ 
>> SqueakMap,
>> > SqueakSource.com)
>> >
>> > I was lucky to see the mcz still be available from
>> > http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/ but it was not loadable
>> > in the first place.
>>
>> What was the problem?
>>
>> > If one wants to use SQLite, ODBC, ExternalWebBrowser, ... FFI is
>> > required.
>> >
>> > Any newbee loading one of these packages using PackageLoader will
>> > run into
>> > trouble, declare Squeak as useless and will soon delete Squeak from
>> > it's harddisk!
>> > This will definitely not help the community to grow - instead we
>> > may end
>> > up with only a few people (most of them burned out like Marcus) :(
>>
>> agreed
>>
>> > I feel a little bit sad that there is no reliable process behind
>> > all that -
>> > next time we may decide to remove Morphic in the last minute.
>>
>> We tried.
>> But this is difficult when the communication between people is not  
>> easy.
>>
>> > There may be reasons for Andreas to get FFI removed (IMHO I agree
>> > that FFI
>> > should not be a part of the base image) but why speak up so late?
>> >
>> > Dont know how usefull the initial "Release Plan for 3.9" really
>> > was ...
>> > (see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645)
>>
>> At least it was for us as a goal and we are pretty there. No?
>>
>> > However - I'm happy that a new version is out. :)
>> > Thanks for all the hard work!
>> >
>> > bye
>> > Torsten
>> >
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