On 27/03/13 10:24 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
Here in Pharo headquarters we are shock that there are just 10 new bugs
reported for 2.0 after the release...
So... I wonder... is that because we made a really cool release, or just
because nobody is using it?
Just before the release I loaded up my project, and did a quick check to
find that everything looked fine - except that I would have to migrate
to Fuel-1.9.
I had noticed that package loading seemed extremely slow, but did not
look further into it. I think I saw mention that it's due to some usage
of #become:, during the compiling of code. Based on build times (of just
loading the rough equivalent code), it seems about 3 times slower to do
a build on a Pharo-2.0 vs. Pharo-1.4.
The slowness is not just an annoyance, because I actually compile code
in my application - it's just compiling getters and setters. I've not
got enough working yet to see whether it's going to adversely affect the
usability (it could make startup time too slow).
Another thing I've noticed is occasional sluggishness in the UI. It's
hard to pinpoint, I often feel like my clicks are being lost.
The behaviour of the TestRunner was odd. Eventually I discovered running
tests via the Nautilus browser, but the UI feedback is extremely
confusing for "abstract" test cases. I still don't quite understand the
results I see there, so I do a final run of the tests in the TestRunner.
Another strange issue I had with test cases was to do with the
interaction of the deprecation warnings. In by build script, I run:
Deprecation raiseWarning: false.
Deprecation showWarning: false.
so the build can run headless. It took me a few hours, and a careful
single stepping, to find that the deprecation exceptions were being
swallowed. I'm sure the TestRunner did not behave this way before. If
you ran a test, you would still see the deprecation exceptions. It was
really frustrating to see your test fail, but have the stack cleared out
before you could debug the exception that caused the test failure.
Are these bugs, or just me getting used to the new release?
