[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] VMMaker metacello config for Squeak and Pharo

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Fri Feb 5 16:40:41 UTC 2010


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:55:34PM +0100, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> Hi, (crosspost vm-dev, squeak-dev, pharo-dev)
> 
> with more and more Metacello configurations for various well known Squeak and Pharo
> packages appearing in the metacello repository [1] I thought it would be a good 
> idea to have one for VMMaker. It is based on a description by David (see [2])
> and maybe he is able to help me keeping it maintained.
> 
> Since Metacello is Smalltalk independent and therefore able to handle differences 
> between the deployment systems the new 'ConfigurationOfVMMaker' includes two platform
> spec's - one for #pharo and one #squeak. (Pharo has FreeType preinstalled, and 
> Squeak not).

Wonderful! Thank you so much for doing this.

I guess this means it's time for me to learn how to use Metacello ;-)

Dave



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