Hi Chris,

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's meaningless.  We've had a new "latest" every day for the last
> several years with the bug(s) that were just recently fixed.
>
> It takes effort for people to update their VM and test it.  No one can
> do that every single day.
>
> It's a given that any candidate is not "necessarily" the final, if a
> major bug is found, that's why it's called a "candidate"...
>
> I was just looking for some guidance from the VM developers in order
> to try to support the release...  If this is for sure not going to be
> the final, then I won't bother to upgrade all my VM's and test all my
> apps.
>

While I can't say that it will be the final I think the chances are very
good.  I wouldn't have suggested changing to this VM had it not been that
the bug I uncovered, which has a low probability of biting, is a serious
one, with the potential for computing incorrect results, hard crashes that
are very difficult to diagnose from the crash log, etc.  So could I ask,
given that I have no desire to propose another version as the release
candidate that you do update and test?  We do have to test eventually and
the one we have now is our best bet.


>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Since this was buried at the end of a 20 message thread, I just wanted
> >> to confirm and bring Fabio's link to the surface where everyone can
> >> actually see it.   This 201807260206 is the final release canddiate I
> >> should be testing with, yes?
> >
> >
> > It's clearly the latest, but not necessarily the final.
> >
> > Levente
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
> >> Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 4:39 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] [Test][Squeak5.2a][Metacello]
> >> Installation causes VM crash
> >> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> >> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >> Cc: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion
> >> <vm-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ok, all new bundles now come with new VMs (201807260206) which include
> >> Eliot's fix:
> >>
> >> http://files.squeak.org/5.2alpha/Squeak5.2alpha-18155-64bit/
> >> http://files.squeak.org/5.2alpha/Squeak5.2alpha-18155-32bit/
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Fabio
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:26 PM H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello Fabio
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the effort of packaging a most recent VM.
> >>>
> >>> Execution of
> >>>
> >>>   Installer ensureRecentMetacello
> >>>   "(Ubuntu 14.04 based Linux)"
> >>>
> >>> in a Workspace no longer leads to a crash.
> >>> Screen shot of the result with details attached.
> >>>
> >>> --Hannes
> >>>
> >
>
>


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