Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] bootstrap with se 1.2r7

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Berend de Boer wrote:
> Decided to bootstrap the latest Gobo with se, but that didn't
> work. 
>
> ****** Error: Current type is STRING. There is no feature append_integer
> in class STRING. 
> Line 338 column 12 in GEANT_GEC_COMMAND (/home/berend/src/gobo/src/geant/command/geant_gec_command.e) :
>                                 Result.append_integer (split_size)
>                                        ^
> - ------
> ****** Fatal Error: Feature "append_integer" not found.
> Line 338 column 12 in GEANT_GEC_COMMAND (/home/berend/src/gobo/src/geant/command/geant_gec_command.e) :
>                                 Result.append_integer (split_size)
>                                        ^
> - ------
> File "geant.make" not found. Error(s) during `compile_to_c'.

It should be fixed now.

> What version of se is actually still supported?

1.2r7

> I'm happy to
> move to ge, but I don't have the experience of reliability I had with
> se, so it would be nice of se somehow still kept working.

As you may have noticed, I don't use SE 1.2 anymore. I'm not really
interested in a compiler that does not say clearly that it will target
ECMA Eiffel. Sooner or later we will have to drop it like we did for
Visual Eiffel because of that. Furthermore, the SE compiler crashes
on me when I put Agents in assertions. So it's not that reliable to
me. It's probably easy to fix, but its maintenance is currently dead
until resurrected, whenever that happens. The Gobo compiler is probably
less reliable and complete than SE 1.2, but I'm actively working on it
and I'm fixing bugs as they occur.

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Eric Bezault
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