Re: [Squeak-VMdev] So this is where everyone has been hanging out...

[Ned K. <ne...@bi...>]

On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:39 am, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Ned Konz wrote:
> > * I agree with Bert that it would be great to have a
> > really-packaged version of the Linux VM ready for 3.6.
>
> I'm on the case today.

Did you get my latest patch for the clipboard fix? I posted it to the 
squeak-dev list.

> > * What's the status of Ian's work? Is it in the tree, or is there
> > some more merging to be done?
>
> When I've built everything from a 3.6 image and the new VMM then
> I'll merge it all in.
>
> Quick poll: how many people are using 3.4 and how many are using
> 3.5?  If there's a drift toward the latter then I'll spend some
> time cleaning it up and removing all the debugging messages.

I'm using 3.5. It's the first VM I've had in a *long* time in which 
all of the following work (or at least compile; haven't tested 
everything yet):

- clipboard copy and paste
- OSProcess
- FFI
- Balloon3D
- Enhanced serial
- Berkeley DB (I've enhanced this quite a bit)
- Regex

Plus, it's about 10% faster than the 3.4-1 one I was using (though 
this could be the effect of going to GCC 3.3).

I run Squeak from a script, so the debug messages go off to 
/dev/null...

> > * I hope we'll be shipping all the VMs with the Regex Plugin.
>
> The Unix VM ships with this as standard.  (At least the plugin is
> there; whether some additional image-side stuff needs to be
> filed-in to use it is another question.)

Right. I'd like to see the image-side stuff in there too, but it's 
essential to have the plugin.

Thanks,
-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
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