[Vm-dev] [ANN] New Cocoa Squeak VM release
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Feb 7 19:21:39 UTC 2011
Great :)
- Bert -
On 06.02.2011, at 14:01, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> Nice! :)
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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