[Vm-dev] VM packaging for Cog transition

[Andreas Raab]

On 11/9/2010 1:42 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> I'm missing something. The current structure allows for the above. If you'd
>> like to check out for example
>> http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.1.1-src.zip you will see
>> that the structure is -guess what- almost identical:
>>
>> platforms/
>>         Cross/
>>         Win32/
>> winbuild/
>>         src/
>>
>
> Huh? Are we talking about same things?

Clearly we aren't, otherwise I wouldn't be so confused :-)

> Take a look at our official SVN tree:
>
> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/
>
> where winbuild?

In platforms/win32/build. This is the proto-location and one can either 
build things in there or not. I choose to keep things separate but it's 
a choice I am making for my build setups. Others can make other choices.

>> The generated sources are inside winbuild (for historical reasons) but they
>> are *very* clearly separated from the hand-written stuff. I'm not sure why
>> everyone is so excited about a layout that we already support?
>
> Yes. Except that if you check out from svn, there is no winbuild.
> If you mean that you packaging a VM source (in zip archive) ,
> and there it contains winbuild dir, this is different.
> We are talking about version-controlled repository with good layout
> from very starting.
> No?

I'm not sure what we are talking about. There appears to be an immense 
enthusiasm about the fact that - Lo and behold! - VMMaker can generate 
sources in different locations. What an amazing new insight :-)

Is this simply about checking the generated sources into SVN? Or the 
build setups? If so, let's just do that and get over it. It's a trivial 
little thing to do and really doesn't warrant this lengthy discussion. 
If not, then I'm still completely unclear what this discussion is 
supposedly about.

Cheers,
   - Andreas