[squeak-dev] where is code to use the RePlugin primitives?

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 21:19:33 UTC 2013


Hi David,

    hmmm, I'm using trunk 4.5 and failing to get any packages displayed in
the SqueakMap Catalogue browser.  What r you using?


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:29:25AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > SLSIA
> > --
> > best,
> > Eliot
>
> I found it on SqueakMap, labeled as "Regular Expressions" I think. It's in
> the form of a SAR install. Original home page is gone but it's still cached
> on SM so you can load it that way.
>
> After loading it, you'll have an obsolete copy of the plugin, so reload
> that
> from VMMaker after you've loaded the SAR.
>
> There is an excellent set of unit tests, so that provides good examples.
>
> There is a Mantis entry with some info, but in summary:
>
> - The VM problem that the Debian folks encountered is probably a linker
> conflict between system-provided PCRE versus the local compiled code
> in our platforms/Cross tree.
>
> - I have a fix for the obsolete pcre_info() issue, converting it to
> pcre_fullinfo(), but I have not posted it yet. The necessary code for
> pcre_fullinfo() is present in the platforms/Cross, so this can be fixed
> independently of linker confusion. (I am away and don't have access to
> the patch right now, I don't mean to sound secretive).
>
> - The plugin is totally broken for 64-bit pointers. I'm in the process
> of trying to fix that, but do not have it working yet.
>
> - We should use platform libaries when present (i.e. any reasonable
> unix/linux platform) but I don't know if this is an option for Windows
> or RiscOS, so I'm not sure what we should do about the code in Cross.
> Probably it should be taken out of Cross and put into individual platform
> trees if required there.
>
> - The code to use RePlugin (subject of your original question) needs a
> new home in a Monticello repository, and a new maintainer. The SqueakMap
> entry can be updated once that has been done (someone will need to
> grant access to the old entry for the new maintainer).
>
> Dave
>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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