Fran broken with Feb 2001 Hugs
Hi Sean. Some bad news. The Feb'01 Hugs release has a representation change for IO, breaking Fran's Compatibility.safeTry, which I had copied from Alastair Reid's graphics library. I noticed that the graphics library is broken for the same reason. I worked around that problem, but then I get "Program error: no more threads (deadlock?)" on even the most trivial Fran example. That kind of error is usually very hard to track down. Hugs-bugsers: any guesses about the thread deadlock problem? Also, as a possible temp solution for Sean, is the previous version of Hugs still available somewhere? Thanks, - Conal
Dear Sean and Thierry [copied to Paul Hudak, Conal Elliott and Hugs Bugs], As you and others have found, my HGL and Conal's Fran both depend on internal details of Hugs which were changed in the latest release. I think I know how to solve the problem (and I've been sent a fix by Dominic Verity in Australia) but this has been a really busy month and I haven't had a chance to test either my fix or Dominic's. In the short term, I recommend that you use an older version of Hugs (can someone at OGI please make this available somewhere?). I really, really hope that this weekend I'll have a chance to get back to the HGL and make a fix available - but that's exactly what I thought last weekend and the weekend before that... Sorry for the delay in dealing with this. -- Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid wrote:
As you and others have found, my HGL and Conal's Fran both depend on internal details of Hugs which were changed in the latest release. I think I know how to solve the problem (and I've been sent a fix by Dominic Verity in Australia) but this has been a really busy month and I haven't had a chance to test either my fix or Dominic's.
Thanks Alastair, I appreciate your help with this.
In the short term, I recommend that you use an older version of Hugs (can someone at OGI please make this available somewhere?).
Yes, please let's do this, because I get a lot of mail from SOE users who are frustrated with not being able to run any of the graphics code. Best regards, -Paul
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