[cells-devel] Triple Cells: AllegroGraph 4.5 "porting"

[Frank Goenninger]

Am 20.03.2012 um 18:27 schrieb Kenneth Tilton:

> Ugh, and find a Linux machine. I forgot about all that.

No need to! Just DL VMware Fusion and run a pre-packaged, complete VM from Franz with AG4.5 server! Really easy ...

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> Is AG3 still available?

No.

> You could use it to figure out what should be happening, and confirm my guess that you can just take 3c-cell-pulse and make it look like 3c-pulse: test that the triple is found before returning the object. You may then blow up on testing upi= with nil, but just do my suggested upi-equal.
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> I took some time to look at the code and I do not see that tcells get their !pulse set when created, nor do I see ensure-current being called necessarily up front, so it might just work if you make this one change.

ah ... Beginning to understand ...

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> The danger is that some incompatibility somewhere else is changing the code path so that initialization or ensure-current is different, in which case the above fix would just mask the real problem -- but then it should break again soon enough.
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> If AG3 can be had for Windows I could give it a try, if not it might be a while before I can get to a Linux set-up.

See above, The VMware Fusion of VMware Player is available for Windows, too!

> 
> Falback is a painful email debugging, with more diagnostics.

oh yeah ...

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> btw, are you dying on the test build or reopen?

On the test build already. 

;; Frank