One possible strategy: load it in whatever version of Squeak it last loaded for you in, run the updates, test it, rinse repeat until you're at 4.3. If you're lucky it might just work (MC itself has changed some over the last couple years, etc. Every once in awhile walking the update path has been useful to me. Except when starting from before 4.1, the closure bootstrap can be bothersome unless you've got some time to deal with troubles.)

Nicolas' suggestions about Compiler prefs is good and worth trying first. If you're getting syntax errors, this really is the most likely culprit that I know of.

Most likely it's just going to need a few tweaks to work again.

FWIW I'm interested in getting the IRC client working again. I have a deficit of time, but I'll be watching the thread and I'll all do whatever I'm able to help.

Why not post your debug.log?


Casey 

On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Nicolas, no I haven't. This is basically for my Newbies tutorials for Squeak and Friends, and if I have to start doing that, it is no longer a newbie tutorial. At this level, even using Monticello to load a new package is a big deal.
> 
> Besides I'm lazy, and fiddling with settings isn't a long term fix which is what the community needs in order to, say, attract IRC bot writers (a discussion on #programming at irc.freenode.net on the best language to write an IRC bot in prompted my interest in the package in the first place, and then I found that I had to debug the libraries before I could do a tutorial on how to bring up the simple client, letalone do a simple bot).
> 
> L.
> 
> On 12/27/11 5:48 AM, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>> Have you tried to open preferences, and play with Compiler settings ?
>> - allow block argument assignment
>> - allow underscore assignment
>> etc...
>> 
>> Nicolas
>> 
>> 2011/12/26 Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>:
>>> On 12/26/11 1:07 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>>> On 26 December 2011 16:17, Lawson English<lenglish5 at cox.net>    wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> has anyone used the irc client lately?
>>>>> 
>>>>> MCHttpRepository
>>>>>    location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/IRC'
>>>>>    user: ''
>>>>>    password: ''
>>>>> 
>>>>> Using 4.3, it breaks with syntax errors at too many places for me to
>>>>> figure
>>>>> out how to correct on-the-fly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just wondering if anyone has used it and gotten it to work recently.
>>>> I didn't _use_ the client, but I happily loaded Network-IRC, -GUI,
>>>> -Model, and -IRCTests.
>>>> 
>>>> frank
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> There's missing methods (thought Monticello was supposed to catch that) and
>>> lots of strange little syntax errors having to do with individual characters
>>> and bytesymbols.
>>> 
>>> L.
>>> 
>> 
> 
>