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

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 04.01.2010, at 18:40, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> 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.

That would be even better. It still seems like a big task but I guess it's gotten a lot simpler after your recent refactoring of the squeak-dev image :)

How about you drop by on IRC #etoys for the dev meeting later today?

- Bert -