Andrew, Are you saying all method and class comments are gone, in the whole system, or just the ones from new code that you loaded ? And is this the case only for you own code, or anything loaded extra ? Sven
On 20 Sep 2019, at 23:59, Andrew Black <apblack@pdx.edu> wrote:
To try and make some progress, I copied a working image from another machine. On startup (on MacOS 10.14.6) I get this walkback:
File class(ProtoObject)>>primitiveFailed: File class(ProtoObject)>>primitiveFailed File class>>fileDescriptorType: File class>>fileDescriptorIsAvailable: Stdio class>>standardIOStreamNamed:forWrite: Stdio class>>stdout VTermOutputDriver class>>stdout BasicCommandLineHandler(CommandLineHandler)>>initializeStdout BasicCommandLineHandler(CommandLineHandler)>>initialize BasicCommandLineHandler>>initialize BasicCommandLineHandler class(Behavior)>>new [ self new activate ] in BasicCommandLineHandler class>>startUp: in Block: [ self new activate ] BlockClosure>>cull: WorkingSession>>executeDeferredStartupActions: WorkingSession>>runStartup: WorkingSession>>start: SessionManager>>launchSnapshot:andQuit: [ isImageStarting := self launchSnapshot: save andQuit: quit. wait signal ] in SessionManager>>snapshot:andQuit: in Block: [ isImageStarting := self launchSnapshot: save and...etc... [ self value. Processor terminateActive ] in BlockClosure>>newProcess in Block: [ self value....
On 19 Sep 2019, at 17:43 , Andrew Black <apblack@pdx.edu> wrote:
Iâm coming back to Pharo after not having used it for several months. Iâm pleased to see that Pharo 7 is now stable and that work has started on Pharo 8.
I downloaded a new Pharo Launcher (the old one could no longer figure out which version of the VM to use), used the Launcher to create a Pharo 7.0 stable image, and started loading my packages into it from github.
My attempt to install the baseline of my code failed when some initialization code could not get the definitionComment for my parser (which is written using SmaCC). Normally, SmaCC stores oneâs whole grammar _as a method comment_ in a method called definitionComment. Oddly, this method was empty, even though the version on disk (in the file Grace-Parser.package/GraceParser.class/class/definitionComment.st) contained the comment, as I expected.
Hoping to at least complete the installation of my code, I manually copied the comment from this file into Calypso and saved the method. It looked fine, but as soon as I moved Calypso to another method, and then back again, the comment had disappeared. I experimented with adding comments to other methods: they looked fine, and I could save the method, but if I moved to another method and then back, the comment had disappeared.
Class comments have also disappeared.
I donât think that this is a Calypso problem, because the loading of code from git would not involve Calypso. Rather it is a code storage problem. I saw a File System primitive failure when I launched my new image, but ignored it; Iâm guessing that the comments disappear because they are only in the file system, whereas the code is in memory. And for some reason I canât access the sources file? The changes file ahs been created as expected.
I just tried downloading the VM manually, and running the âstableâ image that I created, and this time got a different file system primitive failure on startup: #createDirectory in MacStore.
Whatâs going on? Whatâs the right way to get a working Pharo in the New World Order?
Andrew
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