4.3 Release Schedule: Feature freeze today

> There will be no new features added to the 4.3 release of Squeak as of today.
> Between today and the code freeze deadline in three weeks (at the next SOB meeting) the emphasis is on bug fixes.
> If you have been working on features in the Squeak Trunk, please take this opportunity to sort out any lingering bugs.
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> Thank you,
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> Chris
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> Levente Uzonyi-2 wrote:
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>> That repository will be created right before the release of Squeak 4.3.
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> Why that late? I'm just curious if it wouldn't be better to do some
> "branching" right after feature-freeze. Bugfixes would have to be added to
> both repositories, trunk + 4.3, though. Hmm... maybe it's not that easy with
> Monticello/Squeaksource.

> From: Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:58 +0100
> Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: 4.3 Release Schedule: Feature freeze today
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> <[hidden email]>
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> Could someone update the alpha download? It would be useful to have a
> current version for testing.
>
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas

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> On 11/19/11 5:57 AM, "H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> From: Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:58 +0100
>> Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: 4.3 Release Schedule: Feature freeze today
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> <[hidden email]>
>>
>> Could someone update the alpha download? It would be useful to have a
>> current version for testing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    - Andreas
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>
> I have some ready, I interim nominate Squeak4.3gamma-11793
> 3081 run, 3050 passes, 7 expected failures, 20 failures, 2 errors, 2
> unexpected passes
> Failures

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> And when running the test , the debugger shows something related to
> primitive socket (sorry , no external log to attach)
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> We need a Welcome Window showing what is new and About Squeak should say is
> 4.3 and not 4.2
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> I uploaded for all test
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> Wait some minutes
>
> Edgar
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> 2011/11/19 Edgar J. De Cleene <[hidden email]>:
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>> On 11/19/11 5:57 AM, "H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>> From: Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>
>>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:58 +0100
>>> Subject: [squeak-dev] Re: 4.3 Release Schedule: Feature freeze today
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>> <[hidden email]>
>>>
>>> Could someone update the alpha download? It would be useful to have a
>>> current version for testing.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>    - Andreas
>>
>>
>> I have some ready, I interim nominate Squeak4.3gamma-11793
>> 3081 run, 3050 passes, 7 expected failures, 20 failures, 2 errors, 2
>> unexpected passes
>> Failures
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>> DependencyBrowserTest>>#testClassList
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> "Warning! When Collections' dependencies change, this test may start to fail!"
> OK, the usual dependency weakness, see below
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>> ExceptionTests>>#testHandlerFromAction
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> Only the documentation is new, not the failure.
> IMO it should be classified as expected.
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>> MCFileInTest>>#testStWriter
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> This one fails only once, when I replay, it passes.
> IMO the test should be rewritten.
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>> MCMczInstallerTest>>#testInstallFromFile
>> MCMczInstallerTest>>#testInstallFromStream
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> They didn't fail for me...
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>> MirrorPrimitiveTests>>#testMirrorAt
>> MirrorPrimitiveTests>>#testMirrorInstVarAt
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> These should be expected with a non-cog VM no?
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>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testExceptions
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testMonticello
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testNetwork
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testST80
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testSystem
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testToolBuilder
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testToolBuilderMVC
>> PackageDependencyTest>>#testToolBuilderSUnit
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> I never had these tests working correctly in my images...
> I just have to try and diff/merge a Pharo MC subpackage, this creates
> a new package info (like Multilingual-Languages)...
> This then breaks all dependency tests (some 'Multilingual'
> dependencies have disappeared and some 'Multilingual-Languages' have
> appeared)
> All this by the sole effect of browsing diffs - without performing any
> change in the image...
> That's pretty weak
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>> ProcessTest>>#testAtomicSuspend
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> ?? VM problem ??
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>> RWBinaryOrTextStreamTest>>#testExisiting
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> Seems like a new test documenting an old API problem
> I hate RWBinaryOrTextStream anyway, the name stinks.
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>> ReleaseTest>>#testNoObsoleteClasses
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> It remains to see where these obsolete references come from... Does
> this happen in a pure 4.2 trunk updated to latest ?
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>> SocketTest>>#testSocketReuse
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> This one happens to me on a Mac because I have some OS security pop up.
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>> SocketTest>>#testUDP
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> It sounds like a VM problem...
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>> SystemChangeFileTest>>#testClassAdded
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> We should correct this one.
> Note that I don't much like the usage of file 'temp.changes', i
> sometimes happen to have such files in use...
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>> WeakSetInspectorTest>>#testSymbolTableM6812
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> Doesn't appear here...
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>> Errors
>> CompiledMethodTest>>#testPerformCanExecutelongMethodWithTemps
>> CompiledMethodTest>>#testPerformInSuperclassCanExecutelongMethodWithTemps
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> The last one is expected on non cog-VM (maybe the test should be
> protected with a shouldnt:raise: to transform the error into a
> failure).
> I can't remember why the first would fail??? it doesn't for me, either
> in VM4.2.5 not in COG.
>
> Nicolas
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>>
>> And when running the test , the debugger shows something related to
>> primitive socket (sorry , no external log to attach)
>>
>> We need a Welcome Window showing what is new and About Squeak should say is
>> 4.3 and not 4.2
>>
>> I uploaded for all test
>>
>> Wait some minutes
>>
>> Edgar
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