[squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 07:29:25 UTC 2012


On 6 August 2012 05:43, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> FYI: It appears that the Squeak4.4 available from Jenkins does not have the patched Environment loaded ... so travis ci builds fail...
>
> Let me know when the patch is integrated and I'll turn the travis ci builds back on ...

Hi Dale,

The necessary change - Environments-fbs.5 - is sitting in the Inbox
waiting for review. If it helps, you could always cherry-pick that?

frank

> Dale
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> | Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 11:07:20 AM
> | Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
> |
> | On 4 August 2012 20:00, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:
> | > Okay,
> | >
> | > Using Frank's 4.4 trunk (update 12154) you can load
> | > Metacello-Base-dkh.98 from
> | > http://seaside.gemstone.com/ss/metacello and then use the
> | > Metacello Preview scripting API[1].
> |
> | Hi Dale,
> |
> | Now that the infrastructure seems to be settling down, it looks like
> | a
> | good source for an up-to-date trunk image is
> | http://squeakci.org/job/SqueakTrunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/TrunkImage.image.
> |
> | > As reported earlier, there are still some test failures in
> | > MetacelloPreview 1.0-beta.32.2, but the fixes are to the tests and
> | > not the functional code base, so I'd say you can include
> | > Metacello-Base-dkh.98 in 4.4 at your leisure.
> | >
> | > To load the basic Metacello functionality, you can use the
> | > Scripting API to load another configuration or execute the
> | > following:
> | >
> | >   Metacello new
> | >     configuration: 'MetacelloPreview';
> | >     version: #stable;
> | >     gemsource: 'metacello';
> | >     load: 'batch'.
> | >
> | > \to load the tests, exedute:
> | >
> | >   Metacello new
> | >     configuration: 'MetacelloPreview';
> | >     version: #stable;
> | >     gemsource: 'metacello';
> | >     load: 'TravisCI'.
> |
> | Just to get things completely clear in my head, these are
> | instructions
> | for Metacello users post-inclusion, right? They're not actions that
> | we
> | need to follow other than pushing Metacello-Base into the trunk,
> | right?
> |
> | frank
> |
> | > I'll release 1.0-beta.32.3 in a week or so, but I'll just update
> | > the #stable definition, so the above expressions should be used to
> | > guarantee that you're picking up the latest release...
> | >
> | > Dale
> | >
> | > [1]
> | > https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/blob/master/docs/MetacelloScriptingAPI.md
> | >
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > | From: "Dale Henrichs" <dhenrich at vmware.com>
> | > | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> | > | <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> | > | Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 4:19:58 PM
> | > | Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
> | > |
> | > | After the patch, a reasonable number of test issues:
> | > |
> | > |   695 run, 691 passes, 0 expected failures, 2 failures, 2 errors,
> | > |   0
> | > |   unexpected passes
> | > |
> | > | Dale
> | > |
> | > | ----- Original Message -----
> | > | | From: "Dale Henrichs" <dhenrich at vmware.com>
> | > | | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> | > | | <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> | > | | Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 1:25:57 PM
> | > | | Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
> | > | |
> | > | | Sounds fair to me ... I'll patch my current in place and kick
> | > | | off
> | > | | the
> | > | | tests again ...
> | > | |
> | > | | Thanks guys,
> | > | |
> | > | | Dale
> | > | |
> | > | | ----- Original Message -----
> | > | | | From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
> | > | | | To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> | > | | | <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> | > | | | Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 1:20:57 PM
> | > | | | Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4
> | > | | |
> | > | | | On 3 August 2012 21:17, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com>
> | > | | | wrote:
> | > | | | >
> | > | | | >
> | > | | | > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Dale Henrichs
> | > | | | > <dhenrich at vmware.com>
> | > | | | > wrote:
> | > | | | >>
> | > | | | >> Frank,
> | > | | | >>
> | > | | | >> The Metacello tests add/remove global variables to/from
> | > | | | >> Smalltalk
> | > | | | >> and it
> | > | | | >> looks like Environment does not implement
> | > | | | >> #removeKey:ifAbsent:,
> | > | | | >> so
> | > | | | >> I've got
> | > | | | >> some 400 test failures because I can't remove a global
> | > | | | >> from
> | > | | | >> Smalltalk ...
> | > | | | >>
> | > | | | >> I can hack this for the time being but I'm curious what
> | > | | | >> the
> | > | | | >> longer
> | > | | | >> term
> | > | | | >> plan will be with regards to removing global variables
> | > | | | >> from
> | > | | | >> Smalltalk or
> | > | | | >> perhaps leaving #removeKey:ifAbsent: out is inadvertent
> | > | | | >> ...
> | > | | | >>
> | > | | | >> BTW, I'm using update 12154 ...
> | > | | | >
> | > | | | >
> | > | | | > First, Environments is being pushed to Squeak 4.5, so it
> | > | | | > should
> | > | | | > be
> | > | | | > removed
> | > | | | > from 4.4 shortly.
> | > | | | >
> | > | | | > During the development period for 4.5, Environments will
> | > | | | > implement
> | > | | | > #removeKey:ifAbsent:, but eventually that will be
> | > | | | > deprecated in
> | > | | | > favour of
> | > | | | > #undeclare: or something similar.
> | > | | |
> | > | | | For the nonce, how about we implement #removeKey:ifAbsent:
> | > | | | (see
> | > | | | Inbox), so we can at least unblock Dale?
> | > | | |
> | > | | | We do need to remove Environments, but Dale's work
> | > | | | contributes to
> | > | | | ensuring/checking 4.4's stability.
> | > | | |
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