VMMaker (was: RE: [Win32][VM]: Update to 3.1 Alpha build 4)

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Sat May 5 05:34:21 UTC 2001


Tim,

> Picky, picky!

True, but I was under release pressure for the Squeakland update and simply
didn't have time to fix up those things.

> Rename which plugins?

Sorry, not plugins. Should've said "module names"; making the module names
match what is already out there in the images.

> > Ah, yes, and one thing that was quite confusing: Why are 
> > some plugins simply not translated even if you do use
> > #initializeAllInternal/External?!
> Like much of the above, explained in the fine manual;

Hear, hear! ;-)

> basically there is quite an odd mix of plugin code
> sitting around and some decent way of discriminating
> reliably between classes to translate (FilePlugin et al.)
> and those to not translate (FlippyArray2, TestInterpreterPlugin etc.)
> is needed. Until then there is a literal list in VMMaker
> class>providedPlugins, a method that openly declares its awfulness.

That's actually not what I've been talking about. I didn't check them all
but one plugin that was not translated was the DropPlugin although it
appears in the mentioned list.

Cheers,
  - Andreas





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