[squeak-dev] Closure testers needed

Bryce Kampjes bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 16 21:31:22 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:03 -0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>         Folks -
>         
>         I have a closure version for the trunk that's ready for
>         testing. Since converting an image to closures is tricky I
>         would like a couple of people to give it a test run before I
>         push it for real. I am interested in both positive feedback
>         ("works for me") as well as negative feedback ("crashes,
>         hangs, core-dumps when trying to load x,y,z") in particular if
>         you use custom 3.10[.2] based images.
>         
>         In order to test the load process you need to:
>         
>         1) Get a closure-enabled VM from:
>         http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.3-bin.zip (win)
>         ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/Squeak%
>         204.1.1beta2U.app.zip  (mac)
> 
> I am on Linux. In Pharo we have to use Exupery VM because  it was
> compiled with Closure changes and Standard VM doesn't. If someone
> makes a binary of Linux I can give it a try.

You should be able to use the Exupery VM for squeak-dev images too. I
supplied it to enable closure images to be built and debugged.

It does have a few extra changes from the base VM that can be safely
ignored.

Bryce




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