[squeak-dev] Installer loading cryptography mcm files: used to work (I think) and doesn't now

Robert Withers robert.withers at pm.me
Wed Jun 17 01:57:17 UTC 2020


Do we have good Monticello tests that would expose this?

K, r

On 6/16/20 9:54 PM, Robert Withers wrote:
> Hello tim,
>
> Oh dear, I regret hearing about regressions. You chose the correct code
> to load. From thinking about what you have said and the earlier
> Metacello issues from recent changes, I suspect that the
> MCHttpRepository (Is that it's name?) and friends have changed for the
> worse. Would anyone knowledgeable about Metacello be able to look at
> loading MCM files, please?
>
> Kindly,
> rabbit
>
> On 6/16/20 9:44 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> A little while back - late May (or as we refer to it around here, very late March) - we had a thread about loading the Cryptography package etc. I'd swear that
>>
>> (Installer ss) project: 'Cryptography';  install: 'ProCrypto-1-1-1'.
>>
>> worked to load it. There are multiple emails referring to that; it's what rww sugested.
>>
>> Today it fails because the two repositories that the read-in MCConfiguration has are set with a location of #nil (not nil, #nil). This is a *plain 5.3-19435 release image, freshly started* and just run the incantation in a workspace. I've tried several older configurations from the Cryptography repository in case I screwed up the mcm file, but no change.   When I examine the mcm files they clearly don't have any repository names in there. I'm baffled how using that install command could have loaded anything.
>>
>> Somewhere I must have done some prior required thing in those earlier tests and failed to note it, surely? Right now I'm just assuming this is 2020 having fun with me...
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Strange OpCodes: RCS: Read Card Sideways
>>
>>
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