[squeak-dev] Duffing broken for Inbox [was: The Inbox: Compiler-ct.480.mcz]

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 19:53:24 UTC 2022


The Compiler-eem.479.mcz on my machine is fine.  I’ve re-uploaded it.  Note that Compiler-eem.479 is the current tip of trunk’s Compiler package.

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> On Sep 14, 2022, at 8:40 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> What's in the inbox is definitely relevant. It is a broken file. The contents
>> are an MCD archive and the file name is MCZ.
> 
> I don't think it's an MCD at all, but just an empty MCZ.  That's why it's showing everything different.
> 
> When a version is committed, the .mcz file is first created on your local computer, and then uploaded to the server.  The server just saves straight to the filesystem, verbatim, never unpacking it.  What's on the server is exactly what's on the uploader's computer.
> 
> Given that the .mcz is a valid zip, I don't think there was a network glitch.  I think something happened on Eliot's computer when he saved that caused Compiler-eem.479.mcz to be saved as an empty mcz, which it then uploaded to the server.
>  
>> Given that none of us knows the root cause of the problem
> 
> I'm satisfied this case is cracked.  Is Inbox diffing working for everything else?
>  
>> As a first step, I went to https://source.squeak.org and used the web
>> interface to delete Compiler-eem.479 from the inbox. Let's see if that
>> helps.
> 
> Thanks, that's exactly the right action.  I would've done it, but wanted to be conservative about deleting someone else's file since it's available in the interface.
> 
> So now I wonder if diffing Christoph's version in the image is now working better?
> 
> Best,
>   Chris
> 
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