[Vm-dev] How to create headless VM without some primitives?

Robert robert.withers at pm.me
Wed Apr 29 18:37:56 UTC 2020


It’s Right in the middle! Klaarrung?

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 14:36, Robert <robert.withers at pm.me> wrote:

> Are you saying that I can can run my 64-bit Squeak.image running PTAPAS [1] on the Pharo headless VM?!?!?! Now that, my Ladies and Gentlemen, would constitute a profound shout-out to the Heritage [2]. Hey, goddammit, don’t you forget your Heritage!!! You gained a profound VM for Pharo [3]! Do you feel me?
>
> [1] PTAPAS - https://squeak.slack.com/archives/C02LC8AMS/p1587255601170900
> [2] Squeak - https://Squeak.org
> [3] Cog Spur 64-bit Sista Multi, Malto, hi to hair, dost PI wisson calculiert, Schnell, Vielen Schnell!!!
>
> Vas ist deinem mackht Los Corison Stein, meinen Schatchzie? Do you feel me, now?
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> ^,^
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 13:57, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 10:43, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> a) it's way past time we stopped opening a windows when it isn't needed. No window should be created until and unless the system actually writes to the display and calls for a display update. This would enable image-controlled headlessness. RISC OS was able to cope with it 25 years ago.
>>
>> Pharo is doing that, in their branch https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/headless
>> which IIUC is the branch being used to build all Pharo VM going forward.   Once they've worked the bugs out of it,
>> it might be worth pulling that back to evaluate for Squeak to use.
>>
>> cheers -ben
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