[squeak-dev] Re: Speech Klatt package on SqueakSource

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Nov 17 03:05:34 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:18:23PM -0800, Andreas Raab wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> >The purpose of this change is to enable "VMMaker updateFromServer" to
> >first load the Klatt shared pools, then load VMMaker and various related
> >plugins. A similar update will be needed for FFI shared pools.
> 
> For the FFI I'm *strongly* in favor of breaking the package out and 
> have, e.g.,
> 
> * FFI-SharedPools
> * FFI-Kernel
> * FFI-Tests
> * FFI-Examples

Good, if you can make this change and make it available on a repository, then
I'll update the MCConfiguration for VMMaker to pull in the FFI-SharedPools.
Bert suggested the same naming convention for Speech-SharedPools, so I
can update the Speech packaging if that is the preference.

> The structure makes a lot of sense and I could even imaging moving the 
> plugin here (i.e., into FFI-Plugin).

I have a slight bias, motivated primarily by personal laziness, toward
the original Squeak categories that would lead to e.g.

  VMConstruction-Interpreter/ObjectMemory
  VMConstruction-Plugins/FFIPlugin
  VMConstruction-Plugins-OSProcessPlugin/OSProcessPlugin

But either convention would be fine. Long term I think that VMMaker should
be repackaged into smaller pieces, and I have a hard time improving on the
category names that were used back in Squeak 2.4.

Dave




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