[Vm-dev] new Cog VMs available

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jul 15 17:20:57 UTC 2011


On 15.07.2011, at 17:51, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi Bert,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13.07.2011, at 22:56, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> >     find new Cog VMs in http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2459/.  These have functional ALien callbacks.  Previous VMs had buggy code that could easily crash when heavily stressed, as discovered with Vassili Bykov's native Hopscotch UI in Newspeak on Win32.
> 
> Hi Eliot,
> 
> do you keep a continuous changelog somewhere for your releases? It would be nice to include that in the VM.
> 
> Also, your Mac VM bundles always have the same version number which is somewhat inconvenient. Would be nice to splice the release version into Info.plist.
> 
> While I'm in nitpicking mode: CFBundleVersion is recommended to be a simple integer, incremented for each bundle release - your "2459" might serve fine. This is not shown in the UI. The Finder shows CFBundleShortVersionString and the Get Info dialog shows CFBundleGetInfoString. Both of these are free-form as far as OS X is concerned, you can put anything you want in there. "Smalltalk vmVersion" includes CFBundleShortVersionString so there may be users expecting a certain format.
> 
> Your current CFBundleGetInfoString has a link to a "boutique web design" company. I'm almost certain that's not what you wanted to put in there.
> 
> 
> <blush>You point out some vary lazy practices on my part.  I'll see what I can do about addressing these next week.  The Cog Newspeak VMs are still green but essentially functional so there's perhaps a little time to iron-out the scruffy bits.</blush>
> 
> Now, what about etoys and Cog? ;)

I still plan to have Etoys get folded back into Trunk. Just zero time to work on it myself.

- Bert -


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