Folks,

Am 21.07.2013 um 18:10 schrieb Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>:

> On 21 July 2013 14:17, Stefan Marr <smalltalk at stefan-marr.de> wrote:
>> Hi Frank:
>> 
>> On 21 Jul 2013, at 12:56, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 July 2013 10:08, Stefan Marr <smalltalk at stefan-marr.de> wrote:
>>>> I just checked it on Squeak 4.4, which was an adventure on its own *sigh*.
>>> 
>>> I'm curious to know why. Phexample works fine in 4.5, so it ought to
>>> work (and does, according to build.squeak.org) on Squeaks 4.3 and 4.4
>>> as well.
>> 
>> It was just the problem with bootstrapping metacello.
>> Monticello not being able to follow the redirect on the old GemStone URLs was a bit of a stumbling block, and unfortunately not handled with a nice human-readable error message. But that was it more or less.
> 
> Ah, right, OK. I can understand that. Dale's stumbled across this
> problem before, but I've only just recorded it (as
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7780)
> 

I think this is a critical bug that also affects Squeak 4.1..3
We really should make use of our power and update
repositories to fix it in all four versions.
  It is a show stopper when you want to install anything
Metacello initially.

> Thanks!
> 
> frank
> 
>> Best regards
>> Stefan
>> 
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