On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:37:30 +0300, Avi Bryant <avi.bryant at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> If we skip the $$, this whole bounty experiment is pointless - please  
> send me an email offline so we can co-ordinate payment.  Though IIRC a  
> Mac OS X build of the plugin was one of the required deliverables :).

Well, it is not yet completed anyway (lets call it alpha), so I suggest to  
postpone this aspect till we have something nearly finished.  Certainly  
MacOS build still is a requirement and I didn't forget about it :)

John, could you please take a look at this humble creation for review and  
for a MacOS build? I think it has reached the point after which the main  
infrastructure will not change dramatically.

I'm compiling recent versions of the plugin against a daily snapshot  
http://cool.haxx.se/curl-daily/, particulary this one: September 30, 2006  
(because there are bugs being fixed). To get most of it libcurl should be  
compiled with c-ares (async DNS lookups) and OpenSSL.
Typical unix-like system will probably already have a stable libcurl  
installed, so here is a deployment complication - one needs to put newer  
libs (at least the version curl 7.15.5) somewhere in LD_LIBRARY_PATH  
before the libs present when starting Squeak.

As far a I know, the main difference between gnu-C and MacOS plugin  
versions will be in memory management functions they use (for example  
NewPtr instead of malloc). I've tried to abstract this difference into the  
CurlPlugin class>>macSpecificDefines using the idea found in the RePlugin.

Cheers,
	Danil


>
>> 	I?m going to leave for a vacation soon for two weeks, during this time  
>> I will not have an access to Internet other than via astral. Tomorrow I  
>> will try to put the Linux version (I need to compile it against the  
>> same lib versions as a windows pack) and will wait for opinions.
>
> Excellent, they'll be forthcoming.
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
>