Re-2: SqueakMap issues (was Re: Squeak map colours)

> [hidden email] writes:
> > Yes, this is an unfortunate situation that I need to go through. The
> > problem is that after I introduced the server side cache and SHA
> > checksumming apparently lots of releases either were non-available at
> > the time I initially populated the cache (which lead to crap files in
> > the server cache, and to make things worse - crappy checksums!) OR have
> > been unavailable when releases have been registered. I think.
>
> I run into this as well if SqueakMap downloads while the network is
> unavailable.  It saves to the file an error message, and so of course
> its checksum is wrong.  So, the tool could be more careful about
> checking that the HTTP request worked, before saving the file.
>
> Recursive delete on the SqueakMap directories works fine in this case.
> You can then restart SqueakMap and it will repopulate its directories
> from the network.
>
> I also ran into this when I tried to update the URL of a released
> SqueakMap version.  Maybe this is more in the line of what you discuss
> with bad cached information on the server.  I ended up bumping the
> version number even though the actual file content had not changed.
>
>
> -Lex
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