Hello, This looks to me like a case where, due to some unknown reason, the image can not store the source in the .changes file.
I have no idea why this happens… but it would explain why the comments disappear (as the comments are only in the source stored in the .changes file). > On 20 Sep 2019, at 23:59, Andrew Black <apbl...@pdx.edu> wrote: > > My third attempt to post this ... > > I’m coming back to Pharo after not having used it for several months. I’m > pleased to see that Pharo 7 is now stable and that work has started on Pharo > 8. > > I downloaded a new Pharo Launcher (the old one could no longer figure out > which version of the VM to use), used the Launcher to create a Pharo 7.0 > stable image, and started loading my packages into it from github. > > My attempt to install the baseline of my code failed when some initialization > code could not get the definitionComment for my parser (which is written > using SmaCC). Normally, SmaCC stores one’s whole grammar _as a method > comment_ in a method called definitionComment. Oddly, this method was > empty, even though the version on disk (in the file > Grace-Parser.package/GraceParser.class/class/definitionComment.st) contained > the comment, as I expected. > > Hoping to at least complete the installation of my code, I manually copied > the comment from this file into Calypso and saved the method. It looked > fine, but as soon as I moved Calypso to another method, and then back again, > the comment had disappeared. I experimented with adding comments to other > methods: they looked fine, and I could save the method, but if I moved to > another method and then back, the comment had disappeared. > > Class comments have also disappeared. > > I don’t think that this is a Calypso problem, because the loading of code > from git would not involve Calypso. Rather it is a code storage problem. I > saw a File System primitive failure when I launched my new image, but ignored > it; I’m guessing that the comments disappear because they are only in the > file system, whereas the code is in memory. And for some reason I can’t > access the sources file? The changes file ahs been created as expected. > > I just tried downloading the VM manually, and running the “stable” image that > I created, and this time got a different file system primitive failure on > startup: #createDirectory in MacStore. > > What’s going on? What’s the right way to get a working Pharo in the New > World Order? > > Andrew > >
