Submitting a fix.

I've packaged up a minor fix to printing Arrays containing
metaclasses. What is the appropriate way to submit this to be included
in the next release? There's even a test covering the bug.

The Mantis bug is:
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6590

The bug matters to me because I print arrays into error logs then want
to evaluate them back into Squeak to replay the logs to reproduce
bugs.

Bryce

Hi Bryce,

2007/8/6, [hidden email] <[hidden email]>:
> I've packaged up a minor fix to printing Arrays containing
> metaclasses. What is the appropriate way to submit this to be included
> in the next release? There's even a test covering the bug.

Please send a mail to the 3.10 mailing list if you are subscribed.
Also, add an item to http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5934

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Damien Cassou

> The bug matters to me because I print arrays into error
> logs then want to evaluate them back into Squeak to
> replay the logs to reproduce bugs.

Shouldn't you use #storeString instead of #printString for that matter?

Lukas

--
Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

--
Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

Actually I believe this is not in fact what the 3.10 team has requested,
although maybe Edgar or Ralph will correct me.  It is my understanding
that they instead wish you to add the issue to the list on this page:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5934

Ken

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:27 +0200, Damien Cassou wrote:

Lukas Renggli writes:
 > > The bug matters to me because I print arrays into error
 > > logs then want to evaluate them back into Squeak to
 > > replay the logs to reproduce bugs.
 >
 > Shouldn't you use #storeString instead of #printString for that matter?

printString does what I want for Arrays with all elements except
metaclasses including classes. It's a log file, it's got two uses, one
is to read to see what happened the other is to replay to reproduce
bugs.

   {Array . 42} storeString '((Array new: 2) at: 1 put: Array; at: 2 put: 42; yourself)'
   {Array . 42} printString '{Array . 42}'

I quickly tried using storeString and it's not very readable for
small examples, for the longer ones with 5-10 arrays containing
an integer (bytecode address) and a class (the receiving class)
it would be hopeless.

Bryce

P.S. I just used printString because it worked, I only tried
storeString after reading your email.