[squeak-dev] I just did a stupid thing...
Nicolas Cellier
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Wed May 14 19:21:23 UTC 2014
2014-05-14 21:15 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I've moved my VM work from an old Squeak 4.1 image to a trunk-derived
> 4.5 image and now to a Spur version of that. Remember that Spur has
> immediate characters. So the stupid thing I did was...
>
> I just published a version of Compiler to trunk form my Spur image. So
> right now that package's binary component is potentially Spur format. I
> realised too late and thought "oh s..., maybe I broke trunk". So I started
> up my non-Spur image and checked that I could successfully load the new
> Compiler package.
>
> Can anyone who understands the binary scheme inside Monticello packages
> explain why it "just worked"?
>
>
MCZ also embed a textual source file.
If ever MC fails to decode the binary blob it falls back to decoding the
text...
--
> relieved,
> Eliot
>
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