[Vm-dev] Squeak removed from Gentoo Linux

[Igor Stasenko]

On 28 May 2010 00:02, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 5/27/2010 1:56 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
>>
>> I loves me my bit-identical computation, but statically linking to the
>> same version of the library doesn't necessarily give it.  For example, a
>> video decoder may check hardware capabilities, and depending on what it
>> finds decode the video on the GPU, using SSE, or just using the non-vector
>> CPU instructions.
>>
>> There are some examples where we would make the case that the library
>> needs to be statically linked in order to provide bit-identical
>> computation(eg: fdlibm for Croquet math operations), but for things like
>> JPEG I think that the argument is pretty weak.
>
> Agreed.
>

I really don't wanna put that on flame.
Just a single word, which could say more than rest of arguments: UUID plugin.


> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On May 27, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 27 May 2010 23:36, Geoffroy Couprie<geo.couprie at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Igor Stasenko<siguctua at gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27 May 2010 20:37, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Squeak was recently removed from Gentoo Linux Ebuilds because of
>>>>>> security issues in our bundled plugins:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247363
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While it is convenient for us to bundle external library sources,
>>>>>> package maintainers do not like that practice. Is there anything we can
>>>>>> realistically do about it?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Here's my argument:
>>>>>
>>>>> These libraries are bundled, because Squeak VM could be built on a
>>>>> system which having no such libraries provided by default.
>>>>> To ensure bit-identical behavior on all platforms, Squeak developers
>>>>> cannot rely on a platform-specific versions of these libraries,
>>>>> because they can vary from one system to another.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If they're not there by default, you can still link dynamically to the
>>>> libraries and provide them with squeak. Also, if the libraries
>>>> provided by the distribution have the same major version as the one
>>>> you use, you can expect compatibility, and profit from the regular
>>>> updates.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You seem misunderstood a key point there: bit-identical behavior.
>>> Which means that VM should provide same output on same input on all
>>> platforms.
>>> Chances that it will be so, when you using different versions of same
>>> library are pretty low.
>>> So, we can update the libraries, bundled with VM, but can't link with
>>> them dynamically,
>>> because this undermines the above.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
>



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