<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:12 PM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:11:55PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:<br>
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> On 4/29/2010 8:51 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:<br>
> >I suspect that you have discovered some combination of platform<br>
> >sources, configuration files, etc that breaks this, but the intent<br>
> >was to make the change in such a way as to provide backward compatibility<br>
> >even if all of the various platform sources were not updated immediately.<br>
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> And to be honest, I think that's a mistake. It leads people to<br>
> implementing protocols only partially. For example, I hadn't even<br>
> noticed that John added ioMicroseconds(). If the compile had generated<br>
> an error, I would have fixed it and moved on. The way it's now we<br>
> shipped 4.0.1 with a broken microseconds clock. I don't like that.<br>
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</div>I see your point. From my point of view, it's nice to be able to<br>
add support for something that one person needs (e.g. microsecond<br>
timers) without requiring agreement from everyone else. And to some<br>
extent I'm trying to avoid the inevitable "I just loaded the latest<br>
VMMaker and now I can't compile a VM" questions. </blockquote><div><br>Actually I don't want to download and compile the latest VMMaker code. I just needed to migrate my code to a new image, and try to load VMMaker again (not even the last) but the same metacello version than before. There I had a problem because B3DAcceleratorPlugin was removed from Ballon and put in some other place (I think VMMaker). Then, I didn't know how to change my C code that I had download from SVN to adapt it (it was failing as I didn't have the c code of such plugin). Thus, I had to download the latest code.<br>
<br>Thanks<br><br>Mariano<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> But perhaps this<br>
causes more problems than it solves.<br>
<br>
This thread ("Problem compiling Mac VM") seems to be a good example<br>
of the point you are making. I wonder what John and Ian think?<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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