[SF]VM building project third report

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Mon Jun 10 04:38:08 UTC 2002


On Sunday, June 9, 2002, at 02:28  PM, Ian Piumarta wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Ned Konz wrote:
>
>> Is Ian's work on the Unix VM going to be merged with the SF stuff any
>> time soon?
>
[snip]
> But for now, in the absence of any definitive "green light" from the SF
> hackers, I have no intention of modifying/replacing any of the Unix code
> on SF -- since I don't consider it as "my" code.
As the duly nominated muggins for the VM project my view is that the 
green light is on. If, as appears, you have put together a suitable 
chunk of stuff (note the sophisticated use of professional terminology 
here) that builds working VMs on the appropriate platforms then 
replacing the previsou generation seems entirely desirable. The nice 
thing about something like SF/cvs is that we can recover the older stuff 
if it is concluded that you have been suffering from Gauloise smoke 
induced dementia.

I know Ned has been able to build VMs from your latest code, I think I 
saw Lex say he had done it and it looks ok to me so please feel free to 
update SF to reflect your code status. Who knows  - I might even get 
some time to look at the latest socket stuff and see if it still works 
for Acorns!

tim
PS It was _I_ that wrote the original ugly hack unix version of 
FileCopyPlugin and I used 'system()' because it was trivial and adequate 
to my needs. Assuming you've decided to make unix use the non-copy 
variety of VMMaker you don't even need it, so get rid of it and feel 
cleaner.
PPS I think I noticed that AsynchFilePlugin is effectively null in the 
latest code, so I'd suggest completely removing it.
PPPS Greek goddesses?

tim at sumeru.stanford.edu




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