[etoys-dev] Fwd: [squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis 2.0 with BlockClosures

[Andreas Raab]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>> From: Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>
>> Date: 4. Januar 2010 15:45:58 MEZ
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Subject: [squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis 2.0 with BlockClosures
>> Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've just uploaded a new Cuis release to www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . This is the first release with support for Eliot's BlockClosures in recent VMs. This was not easy to do! The approach I took was to rename the old compiler while loading the new one. This allowed the system to keep running while doing this. The change sets I built might be of use to people trying to get closures to other Squeak images.
>>
>> Comments are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich 
> 
> That's something we need to do for Etoys, too.

How about doing that by moving Etoys forward onto Squeak 3.11/4.0? It'll 
be more work but has two advantages: 1) You don't loose the "stable" 
line of work which is Etoys 4 and 2) it would allow you to take 
advantage of lots of other work that has been going on.

Cheers,
   - Andreas