Hi David and Stephane,<br><br>I sent David an email thanking him very much for this email on the squeak-dev list and I saw this message and I thought that maybe I could state what value David's email had for me, as a vote for David sending it.<br>
<br>I had in fact gone and looked at Mariano's blog and also the Deep Into Smalltalk vm course slides to work on building a vm, but I generally use the latest squeak image in my development, and in this image neither Gofer nor Metacello are present. Both of the resources that were listed explicitly place their instructions in the context of operating inside of a Pharo image and using Gofer, and so if you are not in a Pharo image, instead of working on getting a vm built you first have to work on figuring out how to get Gofer and Metacello up and running in your image. This can discourage you and eventually cause you to turn your attention to doing other development in the image which is what happened for me.<br>
<br>David's instructions worked for the first time I tried them, even being so thorough as to tell me how to deal with the merge window that popped up, and worked inside a Squeak image. Unfortunately, I attempted the same instructions from inside a pharo 1.3 image and came across several errors with what appear to be unsatisfied dependencies and a syntax error. So it looks like right now we are kind of stuck with a situation in which the instructions for building a VM differ between Pharo and Squeak. But this is why David's email was so valuable, because the most clear directions for VM building for me were pharo specific, and now there are instructions suited to Squeak that I can use. So I don't see his email as duplication but rather as providing the directions that I was unable to get from the other resources.<br>
<br>Anyway, just wanted to put in my 2 cents on why I appreciated David's work so much.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Jeff G.<br>