Hi Dale, On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:53:19AM -0700, Dale Henrichs wrote:
While we're on the subject, when one does get a debugger How is a beginner supposed to share the error information with the folks on this list?
I have a debugger open on the stack after executing:
Metacello new configuration: 'GitFileTree'; version: #stable; repository: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo50/main'; load
which was my guess for the load expression and I'm getting a walkback that I assume is the same as that produced by the Catalog Browser, but there is apparently no way of really knowing ...
Anyway, I've got a very nice debugger with a nice stack and nice error message in the title bar, but I don't see any way of actually being able to share a simple stack trace and error message with the mailing list other than to produce a screenshot which will not show the whole stack ..
I happen to know that the PharoDebug.log contains a stack trace (and I've attached it to this email), but I don't know how a beginner would know to do this, either.
Of course, I think that the stack dump in the PharoDebug.log is unreadable, but at least it is a sharable stack.
Finally to summarize, the actual message error is: 'invalid version number: normal version component must be integer v0' and this error is very likely consequence of a proposed bugfix for a Metacello bug that was reported a month or so ago [1], as I'm using a version of Metacello with the proposed bugfix present ... so at the end of the day, this is a problem with my code ...
But I do think the two questions that came from this exercise are still relevant:
How does a beginner report/debug a Catalog Browser error? How does a beginner produce a sharable stack trace?
Dale
I can help with producing a shareable stack trace... The debugger has a set of buttons near the top: Proceed, Restart, Into, Over, Through. Just to the right of Through is a drop down list with Fuel out Stack and Copy to clipboard. You can use either of those to share the stack. HTH, Alistair