> On 24 Mar 2017, at 11:29, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to share with you the list of blocking issues I see to do the 
> release :)
> 
> Image
> =====
> 
> - Cairo surface crash.
> Of course, as it is now is unnaceptable... I have some solution to test but 
> if that does not work, I will 
> workaround the problem by adding a (hopefully temporal) CairoPlugin. 
> - Iceberg needs to enter the system as preview before release. 
> This is needed to use the new process, and it was almost ready but we get 
> blocked for a problem in VM for linux
> (see below). 
> - I'm quite sure there is still a leak. During too much time we had the 
> compactor problem so we blame it for our 
> increasing sizes. Now it works and images continue growing without control, 
> so we need to find it. 
> 
> Image 64bits
> ============
> - Athens is working in general, but there are still some places where it uses 
> a `long` as a pointer and of course, 
> that's not true on 64bits (at least in windows). 
> 
> VM
> ==
> - New VM compactor has problems when image hits a big size.
> Eliot is working on it, but we cannot release with VM as it is now... I hope 
> it will be fixed next days too. 
> - here are  still some glitches and tests do not pass completely. 
> Methods failing in travis are: 
> 
>       DelayMicrosecondSchedulerTest>>#testForMilliseconds
>       MutexTest>>#testFailedCriticalSectionShouldUnblockWaitingOne
> 
> This, in linux VM. I think is important but I think we will have a solution 
> next days
> - Dependency libraries problem. Again, in linux... we distribute libgit2, 
> libssh2 and libssl (because we cannot 
> rely on linux installed versions), and there is a problem to solve the paths.

Really?? I thought I had solved that.

> Ultimate solution is to use a script
> as entry point (not the binary), and do a LD_LIBRARY_PATH to solve it. 
> I’m testing this.
> 
> 
> VM 64bits
> =========
> - Is incredibly hard to compile a 64bits version of libgit2 0.23 (the one we 
> are using) for macOS, which makes 
> impossible to use Iceberg. Not sure this is blocking, but well... I needed to 
> point it :)
> - No VM for windows. Again, this is a know issue… but maybe I can add a 
> StackVM for windows… I need to 
> see how is working.
> 
> 


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