VM 4.4 build niceness (was: Re: [Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] VM 4.4 build nastinesses - part 1 of probably many)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2013-02-14, at 14:29, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:46:59AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> On 2013-02-14, at 04:52, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:17:23PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>>>> The odd bit remaining today is what might have changed that is causing Scratch to fail to open up properly; it never gets to open the window and eventually crashes with a low space fail. This is a bit strange since the Scratch image runs ok on the older 4.0 vm and runs on the iMac with a 4.2VM.
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>> I assume you are using the latest Scratch release?
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>> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/GPLv2_Licensed_Scratch_Code
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>>>> I've heard faint rumours of some Scratch related window updating issue so maybe there is a change in bitbltplugin? Anyone recall a relevant change?
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>>> 
>>> Nothing comes to mind here. There was an issue with Scratch images that
>>> prevented running on more recent VMs, but Bert fixed that and I think
>>> you must be using the fixed Scratch image, otherwise it would not be
>>> working on the 4.0 and 4.2 VMs. The low space condition sounds like some
>>> other sort of problem, presumable early in the image startup. I can't
>>> think what it might be though.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>> 
>> So far we've only heard a report wrt toggling fullscreen ... 
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> 
> I doubt that it is related to the issue here, but WRT Scratch support we also
> have two reports that suggest problems with the camera and scratch plugins:
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>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2013-January/011936.html
>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2013-January/011937.html
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> My suspicion is that our plugins (VMM and/or the support code) may not be up
> to date.
> 
> Dave

I rather suspect a build problem. The source code should be up-to-date.

- Bert -