[squeak-dev] Squeak 5.1, saving of Morphic projects is broken

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Fri Aug 26 13:40:23 UTC 2016


Thanks Hannes,

I'll let you know.

A typical image of mine contains lots of projects with documentation
and ideas I need to be able to save.

Cheers,

Herbert

Am Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:43:06 +0100
schrieb "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:

> Hallo Herbert
> 
> I am currently using the 5.1 release for development.
> 
> I think it was
> 
> 4 fixes in the Inbox and I just filed them in an Squeak 4.6 image
> (updated from the Squeak 4.6 all-in-one-release) in December 2015
> 
> http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-System-cwp-781-mcz-td4864083.html
> http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-System-cwp-782-mcz-td4864086.html
> http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Morphic-cwp-1055-mcz-td4864087.html
> http://forum.world.st/The-Inbox-Morphic-jmg-1055-mcz-td4864091.html
> 
> It this is not sufficient give me some time to dig out that 4.6 image
> from the archive and try to recover what I did.
> 
> --Hannes
> 
> 
> On 8/26/16, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi Hannes,
> >
> > any tips how to get at that image and what VM to use? I still use
> > 4.4 for development and later versions just for deployment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Herbert
> >
> > Am Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:16:03 +0100
> > schrieb "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello Vaidotas
> >>
> >> It can confirm that Project saving worked again in Squeak 4.6 in
> >> December 2015 with the fixes applied done by Colin Putney[1]. I did
> >> some tests then.
> >>
> >> The  64bit image is experimental.
> >>
> >> I just tested Project saving in Squeak 5.1 (32bit image) in
> >> MSWindows and on Linux. It does not work either. So we need to
> >> wait for a VM update.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Hannes
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6218
> >> <citation>
> >> With these four changes, it's possible to save and load projects
> >> in a Squeak 4.6 image. It doesn't work in a trunk image, however.
> >> The Spur VM crashes when saving a project. I've reported that on
> >> the VM list. It also fails to load an image segment - looks like
> >> the primitive for that isn't quite finished in Spur.
> >> </citation>
> >>
> >> On 8/26/16, Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> > Hi Vaidotas,
> >> >
> >> > according to the end of
> >> > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6218
> >> > this is now a VM problem. The image side shold have been solved.
> >> >
> >> > From older discussions I remember that environments are too
> >> > deeply entangled with the guts of Squeak that it's not feasible
> >> > to remove them again.
> >> >
> >> > And then some people may use them.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Herbert
> >> >
> >> >  Am Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:46:40 +0300
> >> > schrieb Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> Project saving is broken. When trying to save Morphic project to
> >> >> disk on 64bit image on Windows user is locked in the loop of
> >> >> popping up emergency evaluator, you have to kill Squeak as a OS
> >> >> process. See the docking bar, the second menu item is the
> >> >> Project menu. We need to add this to the known Issues session
> >> >> of the 5.1 release notes at least. This bug was pushed with
> >> >> Environments package since 4.5. Is anyone uses Environments?
> >> >> Can they be removed? Why Environments is not loadable package?
> >> >> regards, Vaidotas
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 



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