[Vm-dev] Attempting to move Cog to Git(Hub)

[Esteban Lorenzano]

> On 30 Mar 2016, at 15:03, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been playing around with Cog to see what it'd take to move the code to git.
> GitHub's svn importer [1] isn't very reliable I think (some directories were actually
> missing), but eventually I managed to convert the entire svn repo to git [2].
> 
> Also, I have been able to build different Cog VMs automatically on Travis CI.

yes, we are doing this since some time… one of the many advantages of being in git/github. 
(we also run pharo tests so we can "more or less” test the vm automatically. 

> For a working build, see [3]. You can download the results at [4]. Please keep
> in mind that this is still a "test" ;)
> 
> Eliot was also concerned how the version info will be maintained and I have a
> simple proposal:
> 
> Each Cog release will be a git tag and for the version itself we could use
> semantic versioning [3]. Then the build version is the git tag, the date is the
> commit date and the URL is the "remote.origin.url”.

+1
(but I think Eliot was concerned on the history already present in svn… for that, there are tools that migrate svn to git with all history, something like this: http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git)

> 
> Here's an example:
> ====================================================================
> 5.0-v0.1.0  Wed Mar 30 12:01:50 UTC 2016 gcc 4.6.3 [Production Spur 64-bit VM]
> CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1740 uuid: 10ece78d-d04d-4ad2-8598-e496b6a6097c Mar 30 2016
> StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1740 uuid: 10ece78d-d04d-4ad2-8598-e496b6a6097c Mar 30 2016
> VM: v0.1.0 https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git <https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git> Date: Wed Mar 30 13:58:46 2016 +0200
> Plugins: v0.1.0 https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git <https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git>
> Linux testing-worker-linux-docker-9d959019-3394-linux-16 3.13.0-40-generic #69-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:53:56 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> plugin path: ./products/nscogspur64linuxht/lib/nsvm/5.0-v0.1.0 [default: /home/idea4it/products/nscogspur64linuxht/lib/nsvm/5.0-v0.1.0/]
> ====================================================================
> 
> Any further suggestions? :)

“squeak” is a bad name :)
“cog-vm”, “squeak-vm” (anything with “vm”, in fact) would be better :)

> 
> Best,
> Fabio

cheers!
Esteban

> 
> [1] https://import.github.com/ <https://import.github.com/>
> [2] https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak/tree/Cog <https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak/tree/Cog>
> [3] https://travis-ci.org/fniephaus/squeak/builds/119507180 <https://travis-ci.org/fniephaus/squeak/builds/119507180>
> [4] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/artefacts/cog/v0.1.0/ <https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/artefacts/cog/v0.1.0/>
> [5] http://semver.org/ <http://semver.org/>
> 

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