[Vm-dev] Re: [squeak-dev] [Squeak 4.0] Mac VM to use for 4.0?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 09.03.2010, at 12:54, Henrik Johansen wrote:
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> Den 09.03.2010 07:49, skrev John M McIntosh:
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>> Ok, it's a test VM, not really for production usage, plus it has little support for plugins in 64bit mode. 
>> It also doesn't run on 10.4 or earlier, unlike the 4.2.2 VM which should run on 10.2 or later. 
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>> Garry ran it in 32bit mode on a Powerpc. It *should* have behaved like the 4.2.2beta1U VM. But 
>> he reported these tests worked with V5, but not V4.
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>> On 2010-03-08, at 10:19 PM, Gary Dunn wrote:
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>>> BitBltTest>>#testAllAlphasRgbAdd
>>> BitBltTest>>#testAllAlphasRgbMax
>>> BitBltTest>>#testAllAlphasRgbMin
>>> BitBltTest>>#testAllAlphasRgbMinInvert
>>> BitBltTest>>#testAllAlphasRgbSub
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>> Obviously that is interesting... 
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>> What would be more telling is how it behaves if you run the tests on a MacIntel machine. 
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>> BTW it does run on PowerPC 32bit, or MacIntel in 32 or 64bit mode. 
>> In theory if you do a get info, and check the (Open in 32bit mode) then it should enable use of all the 
>> 4.x era plugins. 
> Those tests are for the overflow bugs in BitBlt plugin which were fixed
> in a later version than 4.2.2 was built from. (but included in 5.X)
> IIRC, some time ago you mentioned maybe releasing a new 4.2.X as well,
> with an updated version of the plugins :)
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> Cheers,
> Henry


I for one would very much like if all the stable VMs had a 4 as major version number ...

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