Squeak-dev October 2012

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[OT] RTalk
by Chris Cunnington 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talks/RedLine-S… Whoops. Cut and paste fail in that last email. I did see this at ESUG 2011. RedLine Smalltalk works on the JVM. Chris

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Squeak Board on the #100 IM podcast
by Chris Cunnington 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Janko informed me that the podcast I and Craig Latta did last week on James Robertson's blog is now up. http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=IM_100:_S… I answered questions on a lot of topics off the top of my head. Last Tuesday was a busy day, and so perhaps I can be forgiven for not getting everything exactly correct. Janko added a comment on the IM forum about Aida: Re: IM 100: Squeak Board Update [Janko MivÅ¡ek] October 29, 2012 9:20:01.706 Hi guys, Just a comment about Aida/Web presumably not supported on Squeak: Aida is always released on VW and Squeak/Pharo. Aida is designed and developed all the time with portability in mind. To all Smalltalks, not just for that or another camp. We'd like that Smalltalkers as such a small community unite, not divide ourselves! In last year or two Aida is always ported and tested on Pharo first. It is true that previous version of Aida was ported but not tested on Squeak, because previous Pharo ports worked on Squeak automatically. Yet on latest Squeak 4.2 not which we discovered in a squeak.org upgrading week Chris Cunningham mentioned in above interview. But this small glitch doesn't mean Squeak is not supported at all! Contrary, even that I admit I didn't have much time in a week we agreed to work together on website upgrade, a patched Aida was provided in few days and announced on the list Chris followed as well. So Chris, if you lost interest on migrating squeak.org so fast, you should at least be honest and don't spread false information around. An information you should know it is not true. To my knowledge Aida still isn't working on Squeak. That's pretty much why I said that in a podcast. If it is, then that's news to me. And nobody is too busy to say "I don't/didn't have much time in/this a week we agreed to work together on website upgrade", which is not an mailing list post I recall reading at the time. In situations like these its more likely that I'm ignorant more than Machiavellian. I imagine if Colin Putney listens to my description of Environments in the podcast, he'll slap his forehead. Oh well. :p Chris

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Fixes for Durations (week, hour, ...)
by Torsten Bergmann 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

There was a discussion on Pharo list on methods like hours vs. hour minutes vs minute ... with the agreement that it makes only sense to have the plural and singular forms the same. This allows more natural treating of durations and fix some issues so things like: 0.5 hour minutes or (1/2) hour minutes return 30 correctly, etc. There are three Pharo issues ([2] [3] and [4]) for that. I reworked the changes and test cases also for Squeak (see attached changeset) since should help being compatible at this level. I can commit the changes to Squeak trunk - but at least maybe someone can shortly review them. Thx Torsten [1] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2012-October/070509.ht… [2] https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6877 [3] https://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6876 (duplicate of 6877) [4] http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6886

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Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: KernelTests-fbs.235.mcz
by Frank Shearar 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

On 27 October 2012 23:37, <commits(a)source.squeak.org> wrote: > Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of KernelTests to project The Inbox: > http://source.squeak.org/inbox/KernelTests-fbs.235.mcz > > ==================== Summary ==================== > > Name: KernelTests-fbs.235 > Author: fbs > Time: 27 October 2012, 11:37:53.223 pm > UUID: ab0d84db-c1bc-40d0-bd90-786dcd6989b5 > Ancestors: KernelTests-ul.234 > > Mark this test as an expected failure for the 4.4 release. Unmark it at the start of the 4.5 cycle! > > =============== Diff against KernelTests-ul.234 =============== > > Item was added: > + ----- Method: LargeNegativeIntegerTest>>expectedFailures (in category 'as yet unclassified') ----- > + expectedFailures > + ^ #(testMinimumNegativeIntegerArithmetic).! IIRC this test can only pass with suitable VM changes being made. http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7705 mentions that the fix is in VMMaker-dtl.286, so does this mean that with the interpreter VM this test will pass, but with Cog (the VM we use in CI tests) the test will fail? frank

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Crypto package loading?
by Tobias Pape 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Dear all, what is the currently preferred way to load Cryptography into 4.3 or trunk? On a side note, what is the status of Crypto going into trunk? Best -Tobias

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Daily Commit Log
by commits＠source.squeak.org 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-October/005544.ht… Name: System-eem.499 Ancestors: System-ul.498 Document remaining undocumented vmParameters. Document the settable vmParameters in the setter. ============================================= http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2012-October/005545.ht… Name: ToolsTests-fbs.56 Ancestors: ToolsTests-fbs.55 DependencyBrowser's testClassList needed updating after the scanner updates. =============================================

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The Inbox: KernelTests-fbs.235.mcz
by commits＠source.squeak.org 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of KernelTests to project The Inbox: http://source.squeak.org/inbox/KernelTests-fbs.235.mcz ==================== Summary ==================== Name: KernelTests-fbs.235 Author: fbs Time: 27 October 2012, 11:37:53.223 pm UUID: ab0d84db-c1bc-40d0-bd90-786dcd6989b5 Ancestors: KernelTests-ul.234 Mark this test as an expected failure for the 4.4 release. Unmark it at the start of the 4.5 cycle! =============== Diff against KernelTests-ul.234 =============== Item was added: + ----- Method: LargeNegativeIntegerTest>>expectedFailures (in category 'as yet unclassified') ----- + expectedFailures + ^ #(testMinimumNegativeIntegerArithmetic).!

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Trunk test status
by Frank Shearar 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

In a freshly updated trunk we have 3184 out of 3157 tests passing. We have 16 expected failures, and 11 failures, the latter being: * BecomeTest>>#testBecomeIdentityHash * ExceptionTests>>#testHandlerFromAction * LocaleTest>>#testLocaleChanged * MCFileInTest>>#testStWriter * MCMczInstallerTest>>#testInstallFromFile * MCMczInstallerTest>>#testInstallFromStream * PackageDependencyTest>>#testMultilingual * PackageDependencyTest>>#testSystem * RWBinaryOrTextStreamTest>>#testExisiting * ReleaseTest>>#testNoObsoleteClasses * SocketTest>>#testSendTimeout ReleaseTest>>#testNoObsoleteClasses lists a bunch of what look to be test artifacts: things like AnObsoleteAutoGeneratedClassForTestingSystemChanges. ChangeHooksTest and ClassRenameFixTest look to be the culprits. How do we make these two guys not interfere with ReleaseTest? (Or, how do we nuke the obsolete classes created by these guys?) PackageDependencyTest>>#testExisiting [sic] and #testMultilingual looks like they need updating. I don't know if these dependencies SHOULD be there, but they ARE there. I'll fix them to reflect reality, but if they shouldn't be there, please raise a Mantis report to remove the dependency! I suspect that SocketTest might well involve platform dependencies: it fails on my machine, an Ubuntu Lucid Lynx running the latest Cog VM. I'd really like to have a green test status before we ship 4.4, so I'm asking for folks to take a look at the above tests (I'll do the PackageDependencyTest ones) and see if anyone can make them green? And then maybe, for bonus brownie points, see if we can reduce the number of expected failures? Thanks! frank

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The Trunk: ToolsTests-fbs.56.mcz
by commits＠source.squeak.org 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Frank Shearar uploaded a new version of ToolsTests to project The Trunk: http://source.squeak.org/trunk/ToolsTests-fbs.56.mcz ==================== Summary ==================== Name: ToolsTests-fbs.56 Author: fbs Time: 27 October 2012, 9:59:10.759 pm UUID: 7b937895-d726-43eb-8773-490d91c1814b Ancestors: ToolsTests-fbs.55 DependencyBrowser's testClassList needed updating after the scanner updates. =============== Diff against ToolsTests-fbs.55 =============== Item was changed: ----- Method: DependencyBrowserTest>>testClassList (in category 'testing - class list') ----- testClassList "Warning!! When Collections' dependencies change, this test may start to fail!!" self assert: #() equals: browser classList description: 'classList before package selection'. browser packageListIndex: (browser packageList indexOf: #Collections). self assert: #() equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Collections'. browser packageDepsIndex: (browser packageDeps indexOf: #Compiler). self assert: #() equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Compiler'. browser classDepsIndex: (browser classDeps indexOf: #Scanner). + self assert: #(Character Symbol 'Symbol class') equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Scanner class'. - self assert: #(Character String Symbol 'Symbol class') equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Scanner class'. browser classListIndex: (browser classList indexOf: #Symbol). + self assert: #(Character Symbol 'Symbol class') equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Symbol class'.! - self assert: #(Character String Symbol 'Symbol class') equals: browser classList description: 'classList after selecting Symbol class'.!

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6 tests to go...
by Frank Shearar 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

We're down to 6 failing unit tests on the Linux platform, one of which is an expected failure and another of which is a known network issue for the Linux platform. Would my kind Windows and OSX build volunteers please run builds against the latest trunk image? (http://173.246.101.237:8080/job/SqueakTrunk/lastCompletedBuild/artifact/) Note the new URL: that's thanks to Chris Cunnington, who has kindly moved Jenkins to its new home. That will no doubt shortly become the new squeakci.org. Windows users note please that you'll need to grant permission for the build executables etc to act as servers and to make connections: you can do this through the Windows Firewall configuration screens. (I'd give more detailed instructions, but my Windows machines are far away right now.) (Dale, this shouldn't affect you much, in the sense that you won't need any changes to builderCI or whatever once the DNS changes have been made. So if they _do_ affect you, they shouldn't affect you for very long.) It's about time I started with the more admin-y side of the release, making a Changelog and such. I'll make a start on this soon, docs/progress to be on http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6188 frank

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