Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk 2.2d released

[Michael Fellinger]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This should be the last release candidate for GNU Smalltalk 2.3.  In
> fact no change should be necessary between 2.2d and 2.3.

sorry to destroy your dreams, but i just tried to compile:

FAIL: OrderedCollectionANSITest
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1 of 105 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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this is a normal 32bit machine and the previous release worked fine... any 
information i could give you to shed some more light on this issue?

from the ANSI.log:
OrderedCollectionANSITest: 97 run, 96 passed, 1 failed, 0 errors
Set (OrderedCollectionANSITest>>#testXaddXafterIndexX )


^manveru

>
> The release is available from:
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.2d.tar.gz
>
> The changes from 2.2c are:
>
> - An exception to the GPL is included in all the virtual machine's
> source files.  The exception allows Smalltalk programs to be combined
> with the virtual machine, and with any library bindings that bear the
> same exception, without the need to distribute the Smalltalk program
> under the GNU GPL too.  This of course does not invalidate any reason
> why the Smalltalk program would need to be distributed under the GNU GPL
> (including using GPLed class libraries, or dynamically linking GPLed
> libraries such as GNU readline).
>
> - RegexResults objects are created from C code rather than Smalltalk
> code.  This should improve speed, even though it was done mostly for
> didactic reasons.
>
> - C call-out do not necessarily create a new context.  This also causes
> performance improvements.
>
> - Brad Watson's ncurses bindings are included.
>
> - A severe bug in ObjectMemory class>>#quit: (latent since forever, but
> exposed recently) was fixed.
>
> - A couple of packaging fixes, needed for Jochen Schmitt's Fedora RPMs.
>
> Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release.
>
> Paolo