Croquet VM issues

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 09:07:04 UTC 2006


On 3/17/06, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> The thing is that some of these tests take some time and rather than running
> them anew upon each start of the image I'd like to be able to checksum
> the VM and run them only when we detect that the VM has changed.
>
Apart from the problems with reproducing the shell path lookup (doable
and there's bound to float code for that on the Net), the real killer
here, as was remarked, is that admins may mark the executable as
execute only. Without the read bit set on the file, you can't do the
checksumming. It smells like a hack, too - it'd be much cleaner just
to have a UUID generated on each build, that would *exactly* represent
what you are looking for and would be relatively simple to implement
on all platforms (except for wxSqueak, probably, it using MSVC to be
built but that's something that needs to be solved as well :-))



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