[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] Numbered primitives in images

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sat Jan 16 17:30:23 UTC 2010


Well I did build the official macintosh VM for Scratch, it uses fewer plugins, and 
has some special handling for "Quit"  

Personally I think if they are running scratch without the MIT supplied VM 
they need to use a VM created before such and such a date. 

On 2010-01-16, at 8:33 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> 
>>>>>> "David" == David T Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> writes:
> 
> David> Question for Subbu: Is this an important issue may affect a large number
> David> of Scratch users? In other words, are there kids trying to run Scratch,
> David> and their Scratch image stops working properly after Squeak gets updated
> David> to use a new VM?
> 
> As I recall, one of the interesting things about Scratch is that while
> it was only "officially" supported on OSX and Windows, the user community
> had figured out that it was just Squeak, and could be run with a Squeak
> VM on other platforms, particularly Linux.
> 
> David> And a thought for the vm-dev list: I don't know if there might be a
> David> technical solution to this, but it might be possible to use a strategy
> David> in which the some of the old primitive lookups are preserved (at least
> David> for the range 207 through 225) if and only if the image format is
> David> pre-closures. Follow ups to this on vm-only.
> 
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