Unreadable code in the repository (VAST 9.0)

Hi group,

we are currently working with VA Smalltalk 8.5.2 und are evaluating 9.0.

Now i stumbled across the problem that VAST 9.0 writes things into the repository that can't be correctly read by VAST 8.5.2.

I can recreate the problem from the beginning:

- Start a new 9.0 image with a new repository (copy of mgr90.dat).

- Bind to the repository

- Import everything from mgr852.dat into the new repository (config map browser -> Names -> Import -> All versions)

- Create a new application with a new class FooBar with a method called test and the following body

test

(System osType includes: $W) ifTrue: ['1'] ifFalse: ['2']

- version/release the class and save the image

- Start a new 8.5.2 image

- Bind to the aforementioned repository

- Load the application containing FooBar and look at FooBar>>test

- To me it's shown as

test

(X osType ?$W)    ['1']  ['2']

(I left out some unprintable characters.)

- Save the image and exit

- Start the 9.0 image again and re-check FooBar>>test, everything looks OK.

The method FooBar>>test can be executed correctly in both 9.0 and 8.5.2.

But it cannot be debugged in 8.5.2, only in 9.0.

The opposite way works:

so if i create another new method test2 in 8.5.2 with the body above, then it can be read correctly by both 8.5.2 and 9.0.

Has anybody encountered this problem and could enlighten me?

Thanks in advance,

Hermann