<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Count me in for Linux64<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 6:00 AM <<a href="mailto:oberon-request@lists.inf.ethz.ch">oberon-request@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Oberon mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. A2 development and distribution; was, Distribution practice.<br>
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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:25:34 -0800<br>
From: <a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca" target="_blank">peter@easthope.ca</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch" target="_blank">oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a><br>
Subject: [Oberon] A2 development and distribution; was, Distribution<br>
practice.<br>
Message-ID: <E1os4wI-0000n4-Rz@joule.invalid><br>
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From: Felix Friedrich <<a href="mailto:felixf@inf.ethz.ch" target="_blank">felixf@inf.ethz.ch</a>><br>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:22:19 +0100<br>
> ... boils down to a binary search in past revisions until the <br>
> revision can be found that introduced the new behavior.<br>
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Fundamental methods are so pervasive and powerful! A few days ago I <br>
considered binary search to find a fault in series wired Christmas <br>
lights. In that case another algorithm was more appropriate but at <br>
the end of the day, 210 lights worked again. =8~)<br>
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> Example: in revision x we change the representation of arrays with <br>
> pointers. Only in revision y = x + d we find out that on particular <br>
> systems ... We check out revision y - 200 ...<br>
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Difficulty of the correction process increases with d. With a <br>
relatively low frequency of use, A2 has large values of d, in <br>
comparison to Debian Linux for example. What strategy can help to <br>
keep d small for A2? My naive thought is to increase rate of testing <br>
in relation to rate of revision. Perhaps enlist volunteers to <br>
perform a test procedure for each platform. I can test on Linux32 and <br>
according to <br>
<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2#Target_Systems_and_File_Name_Extensions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2#Target_Systems_and_File_Name_Extensions</a><br>
volunteers are needed for five other targets. We also need a test <br>
process suitable for the volunteers.<br>
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Regards, ... P.L.<br>
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