New images up with fixes

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Tue Jun 7 21:35:08 PDT 2005


This is now fixed.

On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Oops!  There is a little typo in config.in line 34.
>
> It is missing a space between the ifeq and the
> parenthesis:
>
> ifeq (MINGW,$(findstring MINGW, $(OS)))
>     ^
>
> -Bill
>
> --- Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:
>
>
>> 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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--
-Brian




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