One of the shortfalls is knowing what VMs are actually available. You 
suggest trying Esteban's, but where is it found? I have tried 
http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/release/Squeak%205.7.4.1.zip and that 
handles the trackpad better than COG, but is this Esteban's? It is over 
two years old, so I'm guessing not. A few more lines of explanation and 
perhaps a link or two on http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/ would be useful.


Cheers,
Bob


On 10/19/13 9:10 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:01:12AM -0700, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> (CC squeak-dev, this concerns many people there too.)
>>
>> Thanks Esteban, I know how this stuff goes.
>>
>> So we're without a maintainer on the Macintosh platform, and I assume that
>> also means iOS (where we're unwanted anyway, so no big loss there.)
>>
> Just to be clear, most Squeak users on Mac are using the Cog VM that
> is provided by Eliot, and readers of the VM list will be aware that Eliot
> is extremely active in VM development lately (be sure to take a look
> at http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/ if you have an interest in
> this area).
>
> Esteban is also continuing his VM work in the areas of most interest
> to him, as he explained. I would encourage you to try Esteban's VM
> build with Squeak and see how it works. I don't have a Mac, but I am
> curious to know.
>
> We do have shortfalls in our processes for updating the upstream
> trunk for the VM, and we have shortfalls in maintaining Mac and
> Windows platforms. These are not new issues, and it is clearly an
> area that we should improve. But don't be alarmed, the interpreter
> VM for Mac is no more or less outdated today than it was last week.
>
> Dave
>
>
>

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