WeakRef updated to better support Tango -- and a question

[Jason House]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> 
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> 
>>> But I'll admit to being a bit surprised that the
>>> Tango build process is painful.  It amounts to running one script, at
>>> least for the base lib.
>> 
>> Ok, so here's my latest experience *after* learning about
>> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/PreviousReleases...  I clocked
>> myself at 45 minutes to do it (with recornding my steps here).  After
>> breaking my system completely at a few points, I'm now back where I
>> started, with the two linker errors from the other day :(  Did I do
>> anything wrong?  Any *other* ideas what could be going wrong?
> 
> I am awfully sorry for not having noticed this before, those two functions
> were not part of 0.99.4, but 0.99.5 (they were added to Tango svn
> immediately after 0.99.4 release). I won't speculate as to how difficult
> it is to backport just that part, so I will instead ask why upgrading to
> 0.99.5 is a problem?

Tango 0.99.5 has two independent implementations of split, and both were
broken.  I submitted a bug report and they are now fixed in SVN.  Last
night, I upgraded to the latest svn and found string concatenation was
broken (which I then told to others on #d.tango who verified it)


> As for the build process, I believe the documentation is correct and
> concise and there is little more I can do, especially if you're suspicous
> of all automatic scripts we create. ;)

I'm only suspicious because I've historically had so much trouble with them. 
The worst was the self-installing binaries that wouldn't print anything and
fail.  You'll noticed buried in my replay of events that the binary-only
download for 0.99.4 was missing a file.  Even worse, the installation
failed miserably after using the installer from it.

The source download of 0.99.4 worked better.  My chats on #d.tango yesterday
indicate that the user libraries are not installed by default with the
installation scripts in lib...  another small oversight with the
installers.  dsss users won't notice because dsss takes care of that part
(but not other parts)

Later in the night, when I did upgrade to the latest svn version using the
automated install scripts from the source, I still had the two linking
errors.  To my utter horror, what I thought was working with the automated
install scripts from source-only downloads were either failing completely
or doing the wrong thing!  I then ripped out old Tango copies throughout my
computer and systematically forced files to be int he right spots.

I don't know why I tend to have so much trouble installing Tango, but I
always seem to :(