[Vm-dev] [Vm-team] New VM builds to support Squeak 4.1 release (was: [squeak-dev] 4.1 release tasks)

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:38:42PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> On 2010-03-18, at 6:20 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> > John, let me know how and if I can help. Given the short timeline, we
> > should focus on essential changes that should be supported also by
> > win32 and unix. I'm not clear on which things are needed in the near
> > term.
> 
> Ok, well it's to do with how to setup the platform directory
> 
> I had put together
> Mac OS   "obsolete"
> Mac OSObjC   "objective C based
> 	plugins   these are common plugins
> 	vm	
> 		Common
> 		OSX
> 		 	plugins
> 		iPhone
> 		 	plugins
> 		iPad
> 
> However this makes VMMaker un-happy. 

Without actually looking at what it will take to make VMMaker
happy, my initial reaction would be that you should go ahead
and establish the new directory structure, and we can figure
out how to make VMMaker happy later. Does that work from your
point of view? I am assuming that you have ways to do the
builds yourself even with an unhappy VMMaker.

I would certainly want to try to do the VMMaker fixes in the
same time frame, or at least by the time Squeak 4.1 is released,
but even if that did not happen I would not expect it to be
a show stopper.

I'm willing to work on the "make VMMaker happy" part.

Dave