[Vm-dev] re: Criteria For Plugin Compatibility

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Sat Sep 12 10:29:54 UTC 2015


> Oh my. Both the Cog and Interpreter sqUnixExternalPrims.c have two
> implementations of ioLoadModule(). I think Cog ends up leaning on
> tryLoading() while the Interpreter leans on tryLoadModule(). It's
> appalling. Just count the number of uses of dlopen(). I'm no C
> programmer and following this stuff through step by step with gdb was
> needless torture. It's the reason my 32-bit Cog/Stack builds fail on
> Ubuntu 15.04. **shivers**
>
> What's most revolting is there are about five systems of tests looking
> for every possible combination (i.e. so.vm-display-X11,
> vm-display-X11.so, vm-display-X11.dylib, etc.) and they all fail. Only
> the last one works or something like that. **shivers like Bart
> Simpson**
>
> I think the reason is that nobody wants to offend their forebearers.
> The [four] of you attend Squeak Board meetings. Come to some kind of
> agreement on what can be ripped out and then send Ian an nice note.

     Well said. Yes, let's.


-C

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