New images up with fixes
Brian Rice
water at tunes.org
Tue Jun 7 20:48:47 PDT 2005
And some important notes:
1) Lee has fixed the new Debugger so that it works before the REPL
starts - this should allow easy debugging of bootstrap issues.
2) The print method has now been changed into a printOn: Console, and
all existing print-calls have been adjusted to use the more
appropriate name printString (which method already existed).
On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Brian Rice wrote:
> 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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