[Mono-dev] Update C5 to v1.1.0

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  Applied. Thanks!

             Zoltan

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Marcus Griep <marcus at griep.us> wrote:

> I have posted an update with the unit tests disabled.
>
> Because the first patch was large and difficult to prepare in the first
> place, I have let it be, and added a second, meta patch, which is to be
> applied to the results of the first patch. Here are the links again:
>
> http://wiki.xpdm.us/_media/mono/v1.1.0.patch.gz
> http://wiki.xpdm.us/_media/mono/v1.1.0.meta.patch
>
> They should be applied in that order, and the result should `make check`
> properly.
>
> I still have not heard back from the original maintainers, so I will be
> working proactively to maintain the library going forward, including
> fixing up the test cases and general code base to quality expectations.
>
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 13:46 +0200, Zoltan Varga wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   Since the old version could run its unit tests under mono, the new
> > version should too, or the
> > failing tests should be disabled.
> >
> >                  Zoltan
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Marcus Griep <marcus at griep.us> wrote:
> >         I did notice these, and I'll go over each of them. I figured
> >         that the
> >         priority was getting the verbatim upstream ported over and
> >         then fixing
> >         them since the upstream hasn't been maintained since this
> >         version was
> >         released.
> >
> >         Several hash table tests depend on DEBUG-mode specific
> >         behavior; when
> >         compiled with DEBUG defined, hash tables use a preset seed,
> >         but when
> >         compiled for release, hash tables are randomized. The majority
> >         of the
> >         failures in the unit tests are due to this.
> >
> >         There is one failure that is due to a method not being
> >         implemented in
> >         v1.1.0, hence the "not implemented" exception. I can correct
> >         this as
> >         well.
> >
> >         What would be the proper way to proceed here?
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 22:40 +0200, Zoltan Varga wrote:
> >         > Hi,
> >         >
> >         >   The patch applies cleanly, but there are some test
> >         failures when
> >         > running 'make check'
> >         > in the Mono.C5 directory.
> >         >
> >         >                 Zoltan
> >         >
> >         > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Marcus Griep
> >         <marcus at griep.us> wrote:
> >         >         I am not attaching the patch here directly because,
> >         even
> >         >         gzip'ed, it
> >         >         stands at over 450KB. Instead, it is being hosted at
> >         >         http://wiki.xpdm.us/_media/mono/v1.1.0.patch.gz
> >         >
> >         >         The library in general is still in need of some TLC,
> >         and as
> >         >         the upstream
> >         >         hasn't been updated in a year and a half, I am
> >         trying to
> >         >         contact the
> >         >         original developers of C5 to determine if there will
> >         be
> >         >         further
> >         >         development. If not, I will likely be maintaining a
> >         new
> >         >         repository for
> >         >         C5 and plan to continue maintaining and developing
> >         the C5
> >         >         library, as
> >         >         well as providing updates for Mono.C5.
> >         >
> >         >         Also, be aware that there may be line ending issues
> >         when
> >         >         applying this
> >         >         patch.
> >         >
> >         >         --
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