Joshua Warner

As a user of atom-shell, if I may bring up a few points: - Backwards compatibility _is_ an issue. I don't think that should stop us from making backwards-incompatible changes...

@YuriSolovyov well, technically (at least from reading the chromium-pickle code), it's not currently portable to big-endian architectures - but I don't think anybody cares, and that's not the issue here....

I haven't previously compiled a openjdk-src build on osx. How are you getting openjdk7 compiled? It looks like the page we link to in the readme for building openjdk (https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port)...

After correcting the jdk build problems (actually, just looking at the most recent version of the jdk7 build instructions), I'm now getting a single test failure (Files, which looks a...

Darn. All I can think to do at the moment is to offer guidance in debugging the problem, if you don't mind doing some leg work. The first thing I...

Thanks, @swadey. With respect to the first test (Misc), it looks like there's some problem with the encoding of non-ascii characters, either in Avian itself or perhaps on the file...

I'm not sure where to go with the Misc test from here. My hunch is that it wouldn't be reproducable on a fresh OS install. I wonder if the standard...

@nyjle, I looked briefly into the problem and didn't find anything. At least now we know that it's not a one-off problem. I'll take another look at it.

@nyjle , I found the Files test issue (see #76). Give that patch a try.

This could have been fixed with https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian/pull/223. @csoren / @nyjle, if you get a chance, could you see if you can reproduce this?