On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto <
casimiro.barreto at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Em 19-10-2011 11:21, Chris Cunnington escreveu:
>
>  Attending: Chris Muller, Bert Freudenberg, Colin Putney, Randal Schwartz,
> Levente Uzonyi, Jecel Assumpacao Jr., Chris Cunnington
>
>  Notes on the 4.3 release:
>
> - this won’t be the Cog release because of the needs of Linux which might
> not be aware of a sudden change
>
> Cog in (Fedora 14/15) Linux still have some problems:
>

You need to be more specific.  Which Cog?  Mine or Igor's?


>
> a) Keyboard input differs from "traditional VM" and makes it almost
> impossible to enter accented characters
>     like áéíóúãõâêô etc...
> b) FFI is not completely compatible with "traditional VM" and certain
> things like CroquetGL just won't work like
>     they do with "traditional VM"
> c) Compiler recompileAll crashes CogVM
>

Not so.  My VMs on linux haven't been crashing in recompileAll for several
months now.  So which specific Cog?  All the version info is in recent VMs:

Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 1009 'r2502
http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog'



>
>  - Jecel is going to look at Linux distros and the vms they use
>
> - Colin will talk to Esteban about multiple versions of the vm and get the
> OmniBrowser to run on 4.3
>
> - Chris C. will go through the Daily Commit Logs back to the last release
> to compile a list of changes to the 4.3 release
>
>  Notes on Package Management ( Or, what would need to happen for Nicolas
> Cellier to  take Complex out of the image?):
>
> - The question was discussed if Squeak Map would be used for package
> management or not in future
>
> - In the future Squeak Map may be the tool that lists packages that conform
> to a series of tests which are a de facto contract between developers and
> core contributors
>
> - If that’s the case, Squeak Map needs some work. But owing to some low
> profile changes that have already been made to Squeak Map, perhaps not as
> much as one might expect
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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