[Vm-dev] Adding VectorEnginePlugin to standard VM distributions for Cuis/Squeak

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi David, Hi Juan,

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 5:48 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> VectorEnginePlugin is a new plugin by Juan Vuletich that can be added to
> standard VM builds as an external plugin. Currently it is used principally
> by Cuis, but is applicable to Squeak and related images as well.


great news!

>
> The Smalltalk slang source is hosted at https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk
> and the package file for fileIn to Cuis or Squeak is
>
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Packages/Features/VectorEnginePlugin.pck.st
> .
>
> No external platforms files are required. The plugin source can be
> generated from any Cuis or Squeak VMMaker image and is portable for any
> platform or VM flavor. Squeak (and hence any VMMaker image) already has
> the necessary support for filing in the plugin without modification.
>
> The minimal requirement for adding this to the opensmalltalk-vm (and
> traditional
> squeakvm) is to commit the generated sources to
> src/plugins/VectorEnginePlugin/
> and add it to the the various plugins.ext files.
>
> Beyond that, I want to ask in advance how we should support
> VectorEnginePlugin
> moving forward. The simplest thing to do is treat the Cuis GitHub
> repository
> as the upstream repository (which it is), and just check generated sources
> into
> the opensmalltalk-vm and squeakvm.org repositories. This however is
> different
> from what we usually do with plugins that live in Monticello repositories
> and are loaded into VMMaker images, usually from repositories hosted on
> source.squeak.org or squeaksource.com.
>
> Are there any preferences or recommendations as to how to best handle this?
> I have been tracking the VectorEnginePlugin for some time and I'm willing
> to do any administrative things that may be needed, including checking in
> generated sources and/or possibly setting up and maintaining a Monticello
> mirror of the upstream repository (e.g. a project on squeaksource) if
> that is preferred.
>

An upstream Monticello mirror would be most helpful.  We have a tiny script
for generating correct histories in exports to Monticello from Tonel
repositories if it is of help.  I will fold the VectorEnginePlugin into the
standard builds within the next few days (not today, I need some downtime).


> Thanks for any ideas or suggestions, and thanks to Juan for developing
> the new VectorEnginePlugin.
>

+1000!!!

>
> Dave
>
>

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best, Eliot
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