[Demexp-dev] Problem with the 0.7 dev version

[GISQUET Christophe]

Hello,

I've read somewhere of a 0.8 version, but I could't locate. So I went ahead 
with what I could find. And so I reported that:

>  the binary stops
Basically, I see an "Error" popup mentioning "Unable to login". Then I see a 
window flashing, and the client exits.

gdb sees nothing wrong with the execution. ocamlrun demexp-gtk2-client.bc 
reports "Fatal error: unknown C primitive `bigarray_reshape'" but then this 
was a guess at how to run the bytecode, and I wouldn't know how to trace/debug 
from there. Anyway, no exception reported.

What makes me think this is not a gettext problem is that the config file is 
only partially written, at least compared to the demexp--dev-0.7 tarball version.

I see different behaviors. Starting from scratch (removing the .demexp 
folder), I have:
- launching normally demexp--dev-0.7 (shortcut, or from explorer)
Works with tuxinette.linux-france.org or official.demexp.org, but creates 
.demexp folder in the cygwin user folder. I didn't test further, and I've 
named this log "demexp-good"
- 0.7-etc version under mingw
Logs OK, .demexp is created in the mingw user folder. Second launch dies with
===
Connecting to server official.demexp.org:50000...
Connected to server. Try to login with ""...
Fatal error: exception Failure("input_value: not a binary channel")
===
As the config doesn't change, I've kept only one version and named it 
"demexp-ugly"
- 0.7-etc version normally launched
Always fail, whether launched with or without 
demexp://official.demexp.org:50000 or if I copy a valid .demexp folder to the 
place where it is know created, the demexp installation folder. I have 
attached its content (one file) in demexp-bad
- 0.7-etc version launched from cygwin. Works and produces a lot more files 
than all others. Attached in demexp-brutto

Last but not least, in all cases, the .demexp folder is created *inside* a 
world-readable and probably world-writable location. The proper way of storing 
this data under win32 is in <Docs and Settings>\<User> and eventually 
<Application Data> if you are really tidy. The former is available through the 
environment variable "USERPROFILE" while the later is "APPDATA". Hopefully 
ocaml provides a way to access those environment variables.

Hoping all those zips won't be detained by mailman for oversize or 
spam-likeliness,
--
Christophe GISQUET

demexp-bad.zip
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demexp-good.zip
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demexp-ugly.zip
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demexp-brutto.zip
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