[Vm-dev] Nuking VM ImageSegment support (was Re: [squeak-dev] Daily Commit Log; System-bf.916)

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 18:40:45 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 23 September 2016 at 07:10, Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> To save morph and restore it is a basic behavior which is broken since
>> Squeak 4.5. This is a bug. Beginning from 4.5 new Squeak user will get a
>> debugger window open in a few clicks. This bug happened as a side effect of
>> pushing Environments package into the Squeak image beginning from Squeak
>> 4.5. No one uses Environments; there are significant use for morph saving.
>> Squeak needs this ability. Maybe it is easier to remove Environments from
>> stock Image and to fix the bug introduced by that package.
>> Introduction of new packages need not to break useful things...
>> regards,
>> Vaidotas
>>
>
> It was pretty difficult for Colin Putney to perform the heart surgery
> necessary to get Environments into the image in the first place. The
> capabilities that Environments enable are pretty dang awesome, and it's a
> crying shame that people either don't see these capabilities (sandboxing,
> trivial resolution of class name clashes are the START of things) or (more
> likely) simply haven't had the time to build the _missing tooling support_
> to make Environments work to their fullest.
>
> I'm equally to blame here: I burned out a few years back, and have since
> been too busy doing other stuff to work on Environments (or Squeak at all).
>
> But it would be tragic if we performed the equally painful surgery to
> remove Environments.
>
> So instead of removing a super awesome half-implemented feature of Squeak,
> why don't we, I don't know, _fix the bug_. Raise a bug report. Give a
> patch. It will make Squeak better.
>

+1000


> frank
>

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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