<div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000">Hi Monty,<div class="mb_sig"></div><div><br></div><div>in April 2018, you shared your work on external shared pools for review:</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><a href="http://forum.world.st/PATCH-added-FilePlugin-error-code-lookup-function-tp5071376p5075016.html">http://forum.world.st/PATCH-added-FilePlugin-error-code-lookup-function-tp5071376p5075016.html</a></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, your packages <span style="font-size: 10pt">FFI-Pools-monty.12 and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">FFI-PoolsTests-monty.5 found their way to source.squeak.org/FFI after resting a while in source.squeak.org/FFIinbox.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">Is there more documentation or history on how this came to be?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">I see a lot of machinery in there: pool definitions, resolvers, pool platform abstraction, a program generator ... especially that FFIExternalSharedPoolPlatform looks like it addresses similar issues Nicolas recently talked about when he mentioned 64-bit differences among platforms: </span><a href="http://forum.world.st/Re-squeak-dev-64-bit-FFI-was-porting-Croquet-to-Squeak6-0-alpha-td5113318.html" style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt">http://forum.world.st/Re-squeak-dev-64-bit-FFI-was-porting-Croquet-to-Squeak6-0-alpha-td5113318.html</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt">Marcel</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt"><br></span></div></div>