[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] VM 4.4 build nastinesses - part 1 of probably many

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu Feb 14 03:05:09 UTC 2013


On 13-02-2013, at 6:49 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:40:07PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> 
>> On to RePlugin; for some odd reason the RISC OS tools dislike rePluginMalloc being exported (no idea why at the moment and it's my problem to solve - the plugin builds perfectly with it not exported) but I'm surprised it would tagged as <export:true>. It doesn't seem like something needed outside the plugin. Is it a typo?
>> 
>> Do we even need to make this plugin anymore? One of the things I vaguely recall from a few years ago was debate about whether another all-ST version would be used with no plugin.
>> 
> 
> I think there have been a few implementations of regex over the years, but
> as far as I know there is not an all-ST implementation in general use. I don't
> know how many people really use the plugin either, but it won't hurt anything
> to keep it available.


I guess not, but it might eventually get annoying to do the occasional admin chore to keep it alive to no avail. Right now I'll make the offending method not export.

tim
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