[Vm-dev] VM Platform contribution (Plan9)

[Alex Franchuk]

This summary is correct. Is there anything else you need from me?

-Alex
On Dec 2, 2014 7:49 PM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:44:41PM -0500, Alex Franchuk wrote:
> >
> > On 12/02/2014 07:54 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:58:02AM -0500, Alex Franchuk wrote:
> > >>On 12/01/2014 10:34 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Alex Franchuk <alex.franchuk at gmail.com>
> > >>>wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>Hello all,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I'm at a stage of stability in my port of Squeak to the Plan9
> operating
> > >>>>system. I was wondering who I should contact, or where I should go,
> to
> > >>>>either submit my work or get access to the SVN repository of
> platforms
> > >>>>hosted at squeakvm.org. It didn't quite seem like the sort of thing
> that
> > >>>>should be put on the Mantis bug tracker, but I could be wrong.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Any push in the right direction would be much appreciated!
> > >>>>
> > >>>If your port uses Cog then please send me a tarball of the files plus
> > >>>some description of any changes you had to make.  And thanks!!
> > >>Currently it does not use Cog, although that is actually my next step
> in
> > >>development if I have enough time! It just uses the normal interpreter
> > >>(as generated by VMMaker).
> > >>
> > >Hi Alex,
> > >
> > >I see that you have uploaded your Plan9-Compat.4.cs change set to the
> > >Mantis issue, thanks for doing that.
> > >
> > >   http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7821
> > >
> > >I think that you are working with a "trunk" VMMaker as your base. I may
> be
> > >able to help by testing your changes first with Linux and an interpreter
> > >VM. From there, I should be able to forward the applicable changes to
> Eliot
> > >for Cog.
> > >
> > >I need to ask couple of questions so that I start from the right place:
> > >
> > >- Are all of the changes for Plan 9 compatibility in the change set for
> VMMaker?
> > >Or are there additional changes that need to be applied to the
> trunk/Cross
> > >or trunk/unix source code? If there are platforms files, please follow
> Eliot's
> > >suggestion of sending a tarball (or zip, or whatever is convenient). If
> it
> > >is not too large, please send it directly to the vm-dev list.
> > >
> > >- Which version of the VMMaker package did you start with? If you can
> give me
> > >a specific VMMaker mcz file that you initially loaded, or tell me what
> > >Squeak image you initially used, that would help. Or, try evaluating
> "VMMaker
> > >versionString" in your VMMaker image, and let me know what it says.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Dave
> > >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > To answer your questions:
> >
> > - I believe almost all of the changes in the change set are for VMMaker,
> > although there is a change to the abstract SequenceableCollection object
> > to add a doWithIndex:separatedBy: message.
> >
> > - The version of VMMaker that I started with was VMMaker-dtl.350, which
> > I loaded from source.squeak.org/VMMaker into a Squeak-4.5 image.
> >
> > I'll wrap up the platforms code into a tarball and send it to Eliot (and
> > the vm-dev list). Currently the platform code assumes that the
> > FilePlugin, SocketPlugin, B2DPlugin, and BitBltPlugin have been
> > generated as internal plugins with the interpreter code, I still need to
> > make changes for it to intelligently generate the makefile based on the
> > configuration (there are no autoconf tools in Plan9 so that will end up
> > being some script). So I will probably be making more changes as time
> > goes on.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
>
> Ah, brilliant! Now I see what you are doing.
>
> To summarize:
>
> There are no changes to platforms/Cross or platforms/unix, and there is a
> new platforms/Plan9 directory needed for the development that you are doing
> for the Plan9 port of the Squeak VM.
>
> Aside from that, your changes are in VMMaker (in the change set that you
> attached to the Mantis issue) and these changes are needed to resolve
> issues
> detected by the compiler on Plan9.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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