A roadmap for 3.9

Lyndon Tremblay humasect at shaw.ca
Fri Dec 10 22:46:04 UTC 2004


You know you are teasing many of us.


From: "Bryce Kampjes" <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk>
> Lyndon Tremblay writes:
>  > This all sounds quite tasty. It is mentioned in the closure compiler
>  > documents that switching the preference to use the old-style compiler
is
>  > needed when Etoys is invoked. Will this be done automatically for
official
>  > image? For System-stuff you mentioned, how about SmaCC? Exupery I'm not
sure
>  > on useable status for any inclusion. Services need to be fixed up for
latest
>  > Squeak. (They won't install based on two reports, first being a
conflict
>  > with KomServices IIRC)
>
> Exupery is not ready for inclusion in the image. It is ready for
> some people to play with it. Currently you need a custom VM and
> it only works on Linux for x86s.
>
> I'd rather get the hooks included in the VM first. But they haven't
> yet stablised. I suspect they'll change a little when I start working
> on speeding up sends. So that should wait too.
>
> Bryce
>

If you have a point where you feel comfortable to see ported, I can perhaps
lend a hand on the Win32 side - since I force myself to stay here, for such
cases as this. =)

-lyndon




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