On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:57 AM, David Allouche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 15 Jan 2016, at 23:49, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 2016-01-15 23:33 GMT+01:00 David Allouche <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>
>>> So yes, it's broken, but maybe it's something else entirely, I get new
>>> reproducible errors every few minutes: errors when activating pretty
>>> printing in the diff viewer in Monticello,
>>
>>
>> this is a known error from the "recent" change for rubric text component
>>
>>>
>>> unexpected contextual menu showing up when I do Cmd-T in the debugger,
>>
>>
>> known ( from the recent changes for debugger :) )
>>
>>>
>>> infinite recursions when trying to debug through the
>>> MonticelloRepositoryBrowser...
>>
>>
>> I don't know this error. But I don't think "this"
>> MonticelloRepositoryBrowser is actually used.
>>
>>
>> I think that was actually a bug in the debugger, or inspector, not in
>> MonticelloRepositoryBrowser.
>>
>> And yes, this appear to be dead code. I found it before finding the actual
>> browser, and thought it might be a good place to start exploring Monticello.
>>
>> I tried the old debugger in my new latest image (in the hope that syntax
>> highlighting would not be broken there), but I realised it advertised no
>> keyboard shortcut for stepping through the code…
>>
>> Starting to wonder if I should go back to spending my evenings playing Elite
>> Dangerous, and come back in a few weeks when stuff is hopefully less buggy
>> everywhere :-(
>
> Generally I'm impressed at Pharo's stability given depth of the
> surgery that is sometimes done on it - but after all it is bleeding
> edge and sometimes things get in a bind.  Since all the tools are
> built and run inside the Image, sometimes its a bit like changing the
> tyres on a moving car - but there is the advantage that we are
> *always* eating our own dogfood.
>
> So if occasionally if everything seems against you, after trying a
> fresh Image as you already did,  slide back to the last build that
> worked for you (I don't think the issues you experience are Spur
> related, but 50496 might be a good fallback as Pre-Spur and

Whoops. That should be 50495.

> Pre-GTDebugger).  Then create a fresh Image from the latest build to
> test your Slice and in that time maybe the other issues have gone.
>
> cheers -ben

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