Porting spoon's VM support

[Tony Garnock-Jones]

Thanks, Craig!

I've managed to get a Flow plugin building and running now (hooray!) so
the remaining thing for me to pin down the details of is the interp.c
regeneration process.

I'll take a stab at that this evening or tomorrow.

Regards,
  Tony


Craig Latta wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony--
> 
>> Could someone confirm for me that I will *not* be able to use a stock
>> Unix Squeak VM, say 3.9-8, with Spoon and an appropriate Flow plugin?
>> That is, are there mandatory changes to the core VM that need to be
>> applied?
> 
>      That's right, you need to apply "spoonProcessorChanges.st" before
> generating interp.c, to get remote messaging support. Also, Squeak seems
> to have trouble on some Linux hosts with loading the released Flow
> shared library, due to differences in the pthreads shared library
> location. I'd be happy to help you with this.
> 
> 
>      thanks,
> 
> -C
> 
> -- 
> Craig Latta
> improvisational musical informaticist
> www.netjam.org
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> 
> 


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