New images up with fixes

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Tue Jun 7 20:34:01 PDT 2005


Okay, Windows users, the issue should be fixed! Grab the latest  
patches and images, and tell me if it breaks! :)

On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Brian Rice wrote:

> New alpha images are up with various fixes as I found them in  
> surrounding libraries.
>
> I have created a new parser for filenames which is much more  
> generic and robust (and satisfies every test I've thrown at it -  
> tests/file.slate includes some examples now), but currently the  
> bootstrap which includes these is broken, so I'll have to continue  
> to work on it to get it integrated and delivered. Hopefully this  
> will be soon.
>
> In the meantime, my initial patch is in the main repository but not  
> bootstrapped in, of course. If you read it carefully, you will see  
> that it can be loaded into a live image and you can try it and it  
> should work, although more files than just lib/file.slate are  
> modified (eg the pre-bootstrap and directory.slate), so don't  
> expect a trivial load-and-go - just FYI.
>
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Brian Rice wrote:
>> It appears that Windows paths are not correctly parsed, and  
>> furthermore that this is the issue with "Directory current" being  
>> used in pathnames after directory.slate is loaded. I am working on  
>> the filename-parsing code to handle all of this robustly. A fix  
>> should be out in a few hours.
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry for the trouble.

--
-Brian




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