[Vm-dev] [ANN] New Cocoa Squeak VM release

[Esteban Lorenzano]

ok, I updated the VM, so now it returns: 'Squeak VM 5.7.4'
also, now it ships with UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle included... this is the first of (I hope) many other. 
I'm working on the "dissection" of FFI, Alien and Bridge plugins. With luck, this will be ready next week :)

Cheers,
Esteban


El 02/02/2011, a las 3:35p.m., Bert Freudenberg escribió:

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> On 02.02.2011, at 17:18, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I want to announce the release of a new version of Cocoa Squeak VM (non Cog), version 5.7.4. 
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> Nice! :)
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>> My biggest change is that I drop the "b" from the release version, I didn't like it, and I think nobody else likes it :) and also is clear to understand, IMHO. Now you can read the version as: Major Version.Minor Version.Bugfix Version. 
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> Could you make "Smalltalk vmVersion" return that too? This is what John's VM answered:
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> "Squeak4.1 of 17 April 2010 [latest update: #9957] Squeak VM 4.2.5b1"
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> There is code parsing the version number. Your VM returns "...] 21.0".
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>> This release ships with this internal plugins included: 
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> IMHO, the "dangerous" plugins which allow calling native code should not be internal, so they can easily be removed:
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> FFIPlugin
> NewsqueakIA32ABIPlugin 
> ObjectiveCPlugin
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> Also, the interpreter VMs used to bundle quite a lot of plugins. Is there a reason you left them out?
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> - Bert -
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