[Vm-dev] VM Maker: VMMaker.oscog-akg.2340.mcz

[Alistair Grant]

On 3 March 2018 at 18:36, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Holger,
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>> On Mar 3, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Holger Freyther <holger at freyther.de> wrote:
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>>> On 3. Mar 2018, at 15:08, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
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>> Hey!
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>>>> Squeak devs opposed this so we are guarding it with PharoVM.
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>>> Can you point me to the discussion?
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>> Sure. It is my thread from 2016. http://forum.world.st/Adding-new-primitives-to-FilePlugin-td4916711.html
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> I don't see Squeak opposing anything.  I see a conservative suggestion from David at the beginning followed by encouragement from Tim and I to go ahead and add even more primitives.  Did you feel opposed?
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> Alistair, please remove the PharoVM guard.   We squeakers would love to use this goodness too.  In fact that reminds me that we should add porting Colin's new file interface from Pharo to Squeak to what should be included in Squeak 6.

On the way...

https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/223 is checking
that it builds on all platforms correctly.

I'll submit the changes to FilePluginPrims in the image in the next day or so.

Cheers,
Alistair