Maintainiable Squeak VM ports (was Re: Squeak on Handhelds
(Update))
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Mar 11 19:07:02 UTC 2007
Brian Rice wrote:
> Mostly through a couple of web pages that guide the newbie VM hacker in
> the right direction. The initial steps are easy, just throwing up a web
> page that explains the state of things (culled from these or similar
> messages) and how to ask to do stuff that is not supported yet, and the
> second part, how to learn from the build structure to make a new port,
> would involve one person actually going through the process and being
> able to channel that feedback into those online pages.
The uber-minimalistic front page at SqueakVM.org has a lot of room for
improvement ;-)
> Oh, not at all. Actually the idea is to get one person to try this
> approach with their pet port project, particularly where the person
> isn't part of the core team and doesn't have implicit knowledge about
> all this. The BeOS port authors still have websites and can be contacted
> for their stuff and maybe even asked about their experiences with it.
I see. Yes, this would be a sound approach, in particular for gathering
information about the issues that lurk along the way.
>> Like I was saying before, I don't own the PR on VM stuff. Knock
>> yourself out if you like, in fact we could probably use someone who
>> owns these aspects of vm-dev ;-) If you are willing to write a bit of
>> documentation about it, I think that would be quite welcome.
>
> Thanks. I'll contact Ian (he owns squeakvm.org) and see about a
> short-term project to make/coordinate the described progress. (Not that
> I'm going to give up, but limited-scope is what makes these ideas work.)
Yes, I agree.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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