[squeak-dev] Re: towards Alien in trunk

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 22:58:58 UTC 2009


Michael, can i ask you kindly, to try using installer to write an
installation script?
Or, if you don't want to use it,
can you send me a list of packages and the order they should be loaded?

2009/9/1 Michael Haupt <mhaupt at gmail.com>:
> Hi again,
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Haupt<mhaupt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After that, I was able to install, without errors, the required Alien
>> packages in their most recent versions in an up-to-date *trunk* image. ...
>
> oh well. I was just informed that there was a package called
> "AlienLoader" that would take care of loading the required things and
> initialising them properly. Having tried this, it seems there is a
> strong dependency on "ScriptLoader". Is that available in Squeak, or
> is it a Pharo-only thing?
>
>> I could not find any Alien libraries in the VM
>> resources, so probably that's the reason. John, what needs to be done
>> to get the library in there?
>
> Heh. :-) I was looking for something that clearly said "I'm the Alien
> library" - and IA32ABI.bundle didn't yell it at me. Which would have
> been necessary, apparently. OK, so the VM is complete.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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