On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Luc Fabresse wrote:
>
>
> 2011/9/22 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> There are two changesets waiting for integrating in 1.4 that have serious
> consequences:
>
> - Ephemerons. The VM level changes are in the Cog VMs build on Jenkins, but
> have not
> been integrated in the VMMaker codebase.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4265
>
> - Finalization code checks for #hasNewFinalization
> This is true in the current VMs build in Jenkins, but in older VMs this is
> not in.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4483
>
> There are two options:
>
> a) integrate in
> b) not integrate it
>
> a) means that the image runs on older VMs, too.
>
> "runs" or "will not run"?
Not run.
> In any case, I am in favor to go ahead and change.
> Moreover, I am not sure it is a big deal here, since it will not impact
> application code.
The problems are:
- people have to use the VM from
https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Cog/
So older Vms (with more or different plugins, for example) are not possible.
- there is no way to double check if a bug is specific to the Jenkins build
Marcus
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