Hi all,
What is the best way to get a current image for smallland?
And what is needed in general to keep up with smallland progress?
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Background:
If you are following the progress of 3.10 you will see that it has hit a hitch due to fonts and font tests.
See:
0005309: [Bug][Fix] Under certain conditions returning from a MVC project will hang indefinitely.
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5309
and follow the references from there.
The meta problem comes from the history.
3.9 included both 3.8 updates and smallland updates. There were, of course, no resources to check or reconcile the two.
A bug was found. A serious bug. I made an attempt to contact the codes author (no response). I fixed things using the bugs code as a guide. And I wrote a test to prove the fix worked.
Of course with no understanding of fonts and only broken code to look at the patch was way off the mark.
The test was a good one because it helped cause nothing but problems until Ralph had to give it a good look. And pull Andreas into the problem. Andreas's knowledge was enough to show us less knowledgable the error of our ways. And he suggested a fix.
But didn't 3.8 and oplc also have the problem? The original bug was from their coders. So I have looked at a recent oplc image and the offending method had indeed been fixed.
So now I am curious, how did smallland avoid the problem?
Unspoken is the meta-problem:
How do we reconcile and use the fixes from the branches and forks of squeak?
Thank you for your help.
Yours in curiousity and service, --Jerome Peace
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Unfortunately the project is almost stopped.
But you can find all the work done here: http://swiki.agro.uba.ar/small_land/
Cheers.
2007/7/23, Jerome Peace peace_the_dreamer@yahoo.com:
Hi all,
What is the best way to get a current image for smallland?
And what is needed in general to keep up with smallland progress?
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