[Vm-dev] Squeak Win32 VM update (3.11.8)

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Andreas Raab wrote:

>
> On 3/11/2010 2:21 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>> I know your time is limited but
>> 
>> 1. You forgot to change the value of "ProductVersion" in Squeak.rc.
>>     It is still 3.11.4, so if one right clicks the exe on windows
>>     its still showing the old version.
>
> Good point. I moved the version definition out of the header and into 
> Makefile.common which should help changing the product version in rc file, 
> too. Extra manual steps get easily forgotten :-)
>
>> 2. Did you find the time to look at the service registration? You
>>     asked for a documentation and I found something in MSDN.
>>     As I wrote in [1] maybe the CreateService API is able to solve
>>     the problem...
>
> I did not. I don't consider this to be a critical problem though since the 
> number of users of this feature is so small. I might even drop it altogether 
> given that there are alternative approaches that work every bit as well.
>
>> 3. The "build" directory in trunk still does not contain the
>>     *.rc files - so the documentation is still invalid when
>>     one tries to follow the instructions from squeakvm.org
>>     which says it works out of the box just by copying this directory
>>     (see [2] for my last question to you on this)
>
> Just fixed that.
>
>> 4. Why a 3.11.8 and not 3.11.6 ?
>
> I canned 3.11.6 and 3.11.7. Version numbers are cheap, I have an infinite 
> supply source :-)
>
>> Sorry for bugging you - but we should make it easy to build
>> the VM also on windows (especially after these two new posts [3]/[4]
>> about building the VM on Linux and OSX).
>
> That is why my recommended approach to building VMs is a file release. In 
> fact ... I might take out the non-file release instructions. It's not really 
> worth having to update them for every minor change in the build structure and 
> things do change often enough to void the instructions every couple of 
> months. Contrary to which the instructions for a file release haven't changed 
> in ages. Download, make, go.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>

If you're still in "VM building mood" please consider adding this file to 
the vm trunk: 
http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=3831&type=bug
The corresponding bug report is here: 
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7410


Levente