[squeak-dev] Re: Latest 4.5, SqueakMap, and SharedPools

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 07:14:58 UTC 2014


On 25 June 2014 23:42, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is Monticello.  I also had this same problem trying to load in
> FFI-Win32 - the Win32Constants won't load correctly.
> I've noticed this issue for a while, but never got around to tracking it
> down.
> It is interesting - if I browse the package from Monticello, I can see the
> definition (SharedPool subclass) - copying that into the System Browser, I
> can execute it there, and then the rest of the process goes forward just
> fine.
>
> If noone else gets to this, I'll probably try to track it down in the next
> week or so.

I can't remember the details now, but look in squeak-dev's archives;
I'm pretty sure Dictionary vs SharedPool has come up in conversation
in the last year.

frank

> -cbc
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I just downloaded a new Squeak 4.5, upgraded to the latest changes in
>> Trunk, and started loading packages I needed into it.
>>
>> First I round a little bug in SqueakMap (SMBase), where it couldn't create
>> a directory in Windows.  There is a fix for this in the inbox - no idea what
>> it would do to other platforms, but it works well on Windows.
>>
>> Next, I loaded FFI and ODBC from SqueakMap.  After loading those, I
>> noticed that ODBCConstants are in the Environment as a Dictionary, and not
>> as a SharedPool as it was loaded in the olden days (Say, 4.3).  Is this an
>> Environments bug?  Or something else?
>>
>> any ideas how I would get it back to being a SharedPool?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -cbc
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