On 07/20/2011 04:14 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> On 20 July 2011 14:42, Philippe Marschall
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 07/20/2011 09:00 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Philippe Marschall
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 07/19/2011 09:41 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>>>>> yes... there is a problem in latest vm's and UUID generation (I don't 
>>>>> know if it is present at any vm or just mines, but well...). For the 
>>>>> moment, faster solution is by deactivating uuid primitive, at:
>>>>>
>>>>> UUID>>#primMakeUUID
>>>>>       <primitive: 'primitiveMakeUUID' module: 'UUIDPlugin'>
>>>>>       UUIDGenerator default generateBytes: self forVersion: 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> just comment the primitive call.
>>>>
>>>> Guys, srsly? Is this some kind of practical joke? You have been shipping
>>>> with a known bug that has a trivial fix and eats peoples code? You are
>>>> wondering why nobody takes you seriously and you don't have more users?
>>>> You teach software engineering?
>>>
>>> Hum, you know like in most open-source software project, nothing
>>> happens by magic, unfortunately.
>>> Human ressources are very scarce as Pharo is a part-time project for
>>> most of us. Maybe your problem will required some interactions between
>>> VM guys and Pharoers. Not something that could be done in 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> Did you submit an issue in the bug tracker just to keep track of it ?
>>> Did you package some patch that could be used more easily by people
>>> who do the release ?
>>>
>>>> This is exactly the kind of shit that makes me want to never again use
>>>> Pharo in production. This is the reason why I don't recommend Pharo to
>>>> other people.
>>>
>>> If you use Pharo in production did you give money to support the project ?
>>> Pharo is not supported by a company (not yet), so no commitments could
>>> be done on the speed of the adoption of patches.
>>> People are just doing their best to enhance the system. And if you
>>> help them (by packaging patches that solve some problems), everyone
>>> will win in the long term.
>>
>> And that is completely fine. But then you don't have to be surprised
>> when people don't take you serious, you don't have more users and you
>> don't have any enterprise penetration.
>>
>> To quote from the project page:
>> "We want Pharo to be the obvious choice for professional development in
>> an open-source Smalltalk."
>>
>> Pro tip: if you want to be the obvious choice for professional
>> development don't eat peoples code.
>>
> 
> Philippe, you are using Cog VMs which are under development.
> Of course , we're all expecting that there is no regressions
> introduced. But sometimes this happens.
> This is normal for development process.
> So, you discovered a bug, which needs to be fixed. But blaming pharo
> for something, which we're not responsible for is a mistake.
> 
> You should know better who to blame. Since you using "cog r2462", why
> you addressing your claims to Pharo instead of VM developers?
> Pharo images run on top of different VMs, and depending which one you
> using, you mileage could vary.
> 
> Well, maybe it wasn't clear to you. But keep in mind, depending on
> what VM you using, you may have or not have bugs.

So which WM do I have to use that when UUIDs don't work it's not my
fault because I didn't fix the code?

Cheers
Philippe


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