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Gary Dunn

Re: [BUG]UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand:

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:24:47 -0400 David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:32:43PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 21:08 -1000, [hidden email] wrote:
>> > here insert explanation of what you were doing, suspect changes you've
>> > made and so forth.
>> >
>> > 16 March 2010 9:06:09.23 pm
>> >
>> > VM: unix - Smalltalk
>> > Image: Squeak3.11alpha [latest update: #9719]
>>
>> As you can tell I was testing the latest trunk image and discovered the
>> "automatic" bug reporter. Very cool. My apologies if I didn't get it
>> right.
>>
>> I was loading a project saved on a different computer. That one is also
>> FreeBSD but the VM and image are slightly older. The project contains a
>> StackMorph with some text fields. The two scrolling text morphs were
>> giving me problems. Anyway, it doesn't even load. I tried the Projects
>> menu, and the World pop-up menu.
>
> Andreas found and fixed a problem in the VM, described here:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004055.html
>
> The bug affects loading of older image segments (from pre-closure images)
> into newer images (with closure support).
>
> The fix is not yet in any of the distributed VMs (except possibly windows?),
> but if you do not mind building a VM from VMMaker and sources, it may
> resolve your problem.

Good news that this has been fixed. Building a VM is more than I want to take on right now (but I know I should learn how). Seems to me that a lot of peopla are affected ... any idea when new VMs will be posted?
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David T. Lewis

Re: [BUG]UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand:

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:35:00AM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:24:47 -0400 David T. Lewis" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Andreas found and fixed a problem in the VM, described here:
> >
> > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004055.html
> >
> > The bug affects loading of older image segments (from pre-closure images)
> > into newer images (with closure support).
> >
> > The fix is not yet in any of the distributed VMs (except possibly windows?),
> > but if you do not mind building a VM from VMMaker and sources, it may
> > resolve your problem.
>
> Good news that this has been fixed. Building a VM is more than I want to
> take on right now (but I know I should learn how). Seems to me that a lot
> of peopla are affected ... any idea when new VMs will be posted?

I will not quote timing, because the official VM releases are published
when the platform maintainers (John, Andreas, Ian) are able to do so.
That said, I would not be surprised to see updates for the major platforms
appear over say the next month or so. As a rule, when new VMs are published,
the latest version of VMMaker is used, which means that Andreas' fix will
be automatically included in future builds for all platforms.

Dave