[Vm-dev] Re: Uploaded squeak-vm 3.11.3

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 26.01.2010, at 05:31, José L. Redrejo wrote:
> 
> I've just uploaded the latest version of the vm.
> I've removed RomePlugin for all the archs, except i386. It's the only
> one where I've tested it works.
> I've also tempted of doing the same with ogg and gstreamer plugins, but
> finally I've let them there. They segfaults often in amd64 too, but
> don't do it unless the user tries to use those features. With Romeplugin
> it was different: some squeak images (as etoys) have it activated by
> default, so squeak segfaults when the image is loaded.

Ah, right. I seem to remember there was a similar problem with Rome on the Mac. I'm cc'ing vm-dev ...

> There are still some important bugs in Debian, and some very ugly
> lintian messages. I don't have too much spare time, so I need some help
> to deal with them:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497583 I have not ideas
> to argue with this man. In fact, I think he might be totally right.

Well, there is a source for this of course (in the VMMaker Squeak package). Generating the C code is a manual, interactive process and requires a running Squeak installation. Making that scriptable is possible, but so far nobody has done it AFAIK.

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528774 : let's way how
> the new package behaves in the autobuilders, but I'm not very
> optimistic. My only idea is removing hppa arch from the package. Any
> help in doing it is welcome too.

Let's see how the new package builds, maybe it works better?

- Bert -