[Vm-dev] "fixed" AbstractLauncher missing for loading Cog

[Luc Fabresse]

2011/12/22 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com>

>
> Hi guys. I have just "fixed" the problem that we cannot load clean Cog in
> Pharo 1.4/1.3 because AbstractLauncher was removed. I have created a
> package CogVMMakerPharoCompatibility in the repo PharoVM of SqueakSource
> and I have commited a nuked version of AbstractLauncher. It is nuked
> because the method #activate is sent by Cog's CommandLineLauncher class >>
> initialize.  So...it seems CommandLineLauncher is only used for scripting,
> so if you DO want to use that class, it won't work in Pharo. But at least
> Cog will load without problems and you will be able to build a VM.  Of
> course a better solution would be to put 'Cog-Scripting' in a separate
> package and from ConfigurationOfCog do not loas such separated package if
> we are in Pharo but do load it if we are in Squeak.   If someone (Eliot)
> publishes such a change, I don't have a problem to rollback this one. But I
> was tired of this error so I proceeded with this workarround.
>
> So...this was done in ConfigurationOfCog new baseline 2.0 and new version
> 3.7.
>
> Gofer it
>     squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
>     package: 'ConfigurationOfCog';
> load.
>
> ((Smalltalk at: # ConfigurationOfCog) project version: '3.7') load
>

Huge Thanks ;-)

Luc



>
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
>
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