<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div>Hi Ben.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the feedback.</div><div><br><blockquote style="border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div>I though I was going to be asking for the moon... for something to parse the VMMaker classes in the system into a desktop GUI selection tool, there you've already thought of something similar. Not withstanding any Seaside UI, I think a desktop UI would be more use for individuals to explore how the build system works - and the infrastructure would be common between the two UI.<br></div></blockquote> There is an existing tool VMMakerTool that does what you say.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The barrier to entry for a newbies is getting everything set up and configured. Once over the initial hump, the development/compile/build process is pretty easy to work with.</div><div><br></div><div>To help newbies jump-that-hump , I have a script in Cog/image/buildsqueakcmakeimage.sh (broken at the moment, investigating why now) that sets up Squeak images with all the tools installed and configured ready for use.</div><div><br></div><div>This includes the VMMakerTool for old-school generation, Eliot's cog scripts and the under-development CMakeVMakerSqueak stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>The script supports setting up new Cog dev with VMaker.oscog and the old StandardVM in VMMaker package, so its easy to get up and running quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>>From some reason its broken at the moment and I am debugging it now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers.</div><div><br></div><div>tty</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></body></html>