[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] Unable to read Utf8 ?

[Esteban Lorenzano]

> On 16 Jan 2016, at 10:45, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Thierry,
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>    up until a few hours ago the latest VM sources were indeed broken by work I was doing on 64 bits.  My sources are AFAIA now correct and I suppose you're waiting on Esteban doing a merge.  But I'm responding since there seems to be a process error here.

is still broken :)

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> I need the freedom to break the VM, otherwise I can only extend it with difficulty.  This assumes that there are currently servers that build and test the VM, and implies that we maintain the notion of the most recent good VM that has passed all the tests, and that this is the "latest" VM everyone is using.
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> If there isn't this distinction then every time I extend the VM and make inevitable mistakes I affect users.  That's clearly not sensible.

yes of course, what we have is two versions of the VM:

- “latest" build is a build with latest sources… this might be broken. People willing to help us find bugs should use this. 
- “stable” build is the VM after it passed all tests… and that’s what people willing some stability should use :)

what actually is happening now is that there is a lot of people helping in the migration of spur (something I thank, a lot) and then they use latest vm version… who is usually very stable (but not always, as is the case). 

cheers, 
Esteban


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>> On Jan 16, 2016, at 1:21 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Guys,
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>> has something changed in string handling? I'm unable to get the latest Pharo to read files containing utf8 data.
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>> I tracked it down to a primitive (at:put:) in WideString and to the latest vm for Pharo 5, so, maybe there is something wrong in the latest vm.
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>> Thierry
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