V8.0.1 Development Build B130 is [no longer] available

[wembley]

This build is no longer available -- see viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4793 for replacement build.

As announced at the European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG) meeting in September, we will be making some of the VA Smalltalk development builds available to the community as a way for you to get an early look at what is coming in the next release. As a development build, this code has not undergone the same level of testing that a beta or production release would undergo. Therefore, you should use caution when upgrading your development environment to this level of code and you should be prepared to back off to the previous production level of code if you encounter issues.

Known problems

Problem: The Seaside Core feature will not load into an image that has a previous version of Seaside loaded.
Workaround: Start with a clean image from the \newimage directory.

Problem: Several Seaside SUnit tests fail.
Workaround: Ignore the failures.

Fixes and Enhancements

This build contains the following fixes and enhancements compared to V8.0:

Case Title
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16202 Improvements to Installation Process
24638 Add support on Windows for cdecl calling convention
24948 ANSI exception handling -- behaviour when falling through handlerBlock
29222 Provide example of Smalltalk communicating with an existing server
33783 Walkback in OSEventManager class>>#runDeferredMessages
37579 Misplaced check for ACO Support in PlatformFunction>>asyncCallWithArguments:stackSize:
37986 Tooltips do not work for the OSToolBar and OSTabFolder controls
39111 Web Services WDSL fails in VA7
39189 SST mismanages freeing of its OSObjects
40099 Seaside 3.0a5
40175 WkTableWidgetView cell edit lost when cell scrolled off view
40578 Make 'use emulated toolbars' a global setting
40669 Platform Functions dealing with large files
40736 Problem handling WARequestContextNotFound exception
40785 VA Assist browser shows strange output for long comment containing javascript
40815 Script Editor has two Options menu items
40873 Create a Tabbed StsApplicationsBrowser
40887 Organizer status line shows multiline revision note
40945 map-file not correctly generated for schema with a class hierarchy
40950 Include AbtProgressBar (EwProgressBar) to VA ST
41022 Problem resizing the information line in a Visual Parts Editor
41108 Change isMapped to isManaged in the TobFlatToolBarsWidgetsApp
41370 EmLibraryStatistics produces walkbacks when library being verified has problems
41545 VA Assist Inspector Variables List shows tool bar on only the right half of the window
41546 StsWorkspaceIndexedCollectionInspector has no Workspace Context Menu
41629 Tabbed Versions of Class Edition Methods Method Edition Browser
41671 Warning Message for circular constraints moved to give better information to user
41740 VA Smalltalk install fails on Windows 7 RC1
41785 Tabbed Browser text pane needs word wrap option
41786 Tabbed browsers and inspectors use the same superclass toolbar and information line methods
41787 StsApplicationManager uses an OS status line if on windows
41832 Opening a tabbed browser from an 'Implementors of' browser doesn't handle breakpoints
41884 Hover Help broken for Sliders
41888 StsTabbedClassesBrowserWin lost when disable and enable Va-Assist
42070 TranscriptTTY writes extra blank lines to the log file on Windows
42105 AbtTimedWait won't load in passive image
42338 Tabbed Toolbar leaks GDI objects
42453 AbtSplitWindowView does not show splitbar colors
42456 Integer>>#even is fast but Integer>>#odd is slow
42526 Promote commonly useful methods from SeasideVASTProloadApp to Kernel
42738 Add ReadWriteBinaryOrTextStream class to Seaside portability layer
42798 Dictionary>>#copy misbehaves
42817 Remove OS/2 as a Cross Development (XD) image type
42904 Walkback in AbtXmlStreamConverter>>convertStream:withEncoding:
42944 ExceptionalEvent>>#signalWithArguments: is missing a ^
43008 Different look and feel windows controls development image and runtime
43064 sstwsdl.xsd schema contains two syntax errors
43155 WAVASTPlatform>>#filesIn: returns incorrect results
43156 WAVASTPlatform doesn't handle Squeak method categories correctly
43201 Create loadable feature for VAStGoodies.com Tools
43385 Reference to StsWorkspaceInspectorWin in StsTabbedBrowserAppWin causes load error
43392 Class-based exception mapping to instance-based exceptions fails when #isResumable answer is not constant
43420 Spelling of HTTP Status Code 200 reason phrase breaks some proxies
43476 Change VM memory management from GlobalAlloc/Free to HeapAlloc/Free on Windows
43489 OLE Registry Browser does not print the property flag correctly
43490 OLE Registry Browser does not properly handle keys when a control is missing
43571 SstRmiRegistry>>#bind:to: incorrectly checks for existing entry
43674 RRRfc822DateTime>>#encodeOn: should use English locale date names on all platforms
43689 ZeroDivide answers incorrect value on #return: or #resume:
43772 StsTabbedChangesBrowserWin produces extraneous debug output

Obtaining the build

You can access the development build (for Windows and Linux) from http://www2.instantiations.com/VAST/fil ... Build.html.

Reporting problems

You can report problems with a development build by posting to this forum or by sending email to vast-support@instantiations.com. In either case, please include the build number (B128) in the title of your post/email to help us coordinate a response.

[marten]

As announced at the European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG) meeting in September, we will be making some of the VA Smalltalk development builds available to the community as a way for you to get an early look at what is coming in the next release. As a development build, this code has not undergone the same level of testing that a beta or production release would undergo. Therefore, you should use caution when upgrading your development environment to this level of code and you should be prepared to back off to the previous production level of code if you encounter issues.

I am preparing an image for VirtualBox using Ubuntu 9.10 with several Smalltalks and the 8.01 behaves better than the older versions. Some problems are still there:

* Installation is still not possible on an out-of-the-box Ubuntu due to the by default missing "csh" (just install the csh package)
* German Umlauts are still not possible to enter within the source code ... (some additional work has to be done here)
* Copy/Paste of source code from/into the same window still does not work
* When imported ConfigurationMaps (Under Linux) from "VAStGoodies.com" using the integrated tool the selected maps are added to the right list of this tool, but they are not viewable (but selectable !).
* German Umlauts in source code are more or less unuseable (when e.g. loading source code from Windows-application). All source code after an umlaut disappears under Linux

[wembley]

Marten -

* Installation is still not possible on an out-of-the-box Ubuntu due to the by default missing "csh" (just install the csh package)

Fixed in V8.0.1

* The Installation of the documentation does not work ... it is simply not installed

Did you try to install the doc at the same time as the client code or as a separate run of the installer?

[wembley]

Marten -

* When imported ConfigurationMaps (Under Linux) from "VAStGoodies.com" using the integrated tool the selected maps are added to the right list of this tool, but they are not viewable (but selectable !).

It does the same thing for me on Ubuntu 9.04 (I still need to try it on Ubuntu 7).

[marten]

Marten -

* Installation is still not possible on an out-of-the-box Ubuntu due to the by default missing "csh" (just install the csh package)

Fixed in V8.0.1

But not in Build 130 ... !?

* The Installation of the documentation does not work ... it is simply not installed

Did you try to install the doc at the same time as the client code or as a separate run of the installer?

Forget it - It's there, I do not know, why I could not find it ....

[klaus]

Hello,

the Load/Unload feature list is empty. Is there nothing to load or unload?

Regards

Klaus

[wembley]

Klaus -

If the Load/Unload features list is empty, you are most likely connected to a manager that doesn't match your installation. So, for example, if you are running a V8.0 .icx and .ini file which is connected to a manager containing ONLY V8.0.1 features, nothing will show in the Load/Unload feature list because the feature loader is looking for V8.0 features. If this is the case, the easiest thing to do is change fplevel=0 to fplevel=1 in the .ini file

[klaus]

Thanks John,

this works fine..

Regards

Klaus

[marten]

It's still possible, that the new class browser does not recognize a method selection state change and does not change the lower widget content to show the source of the newly selected method. One has to change one of the tabs and then the browser behaves ok ...