I would like to ask David and Tim a few more questions to

- Since you started maintaining VMMaker, did you make any changes to  
the InterpreterSimulator? I can of course go through all the updates  
and find it in your notes there, but it appears to me you did not work  
on InterpreterSimulator?

- are you familiar with the methods coerceTo:sim: in class ByteSymbol  
and the missing #swapBytesFrom:to: in class Bitmap?

-There is a methods coerceTo:sim:in class Bitmap though, maybe they  
where mixed up?

Thank you for the help,

Merik Voswinkel


On Dec 13, 2009, at 5:17 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:00:26PM +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
>> On Sunday 13 December 2009 08:20:14 am David T. Lewis wrote:
>>> Please load the latest version of VMMaker from
>>> http://squeaksource.com/VMMaker. The 3.8b6 version that you may have
>>> gotten from SqueakMap or Universes is now quite out of date. If  
>>> you load
>>> the latest version from SqueakSource, then evaluate "VMMaker
>>> updateFromServer", you will have the latest VMMaker along with  
>>> updates for
>>> some other plugins and utilities.
>> This gives a warning about missing dependencies on  
>> KlattResonatorIndices and
>> FFIPlugin. Proceeding completes the load without any further issues  
>> (may need
>> to start squeak with more memory to avoid running out of memory).  
>> Not sure if
>> the broken dependencies of FFIPlugin may create problems down the  
>> road.
>
> I see what you mean. The #updateFromServer will load the missing  
> packages
> that caused the warnings, but it looks like you need to manually re- 
> load
> the latest VMMaker afterward in order to bring it up to date. After  
> that,
> the #updateFromServer should take care of future updates to any of  
> these
> packages.
>
> If anyone knows how to fix this in the Monticello configuration,  
> please
> let me know. This was my first attempt at putting together a  
> configuration
> map, and I don't really know what I'm doing.
>
>> BTW, there is a ready-made image with VMMaker at squeakvm.org/unix/  
>> (search
>> for unix-*-vmm.tar.gz
>
> Thanks. I think Ian keeps copies of his build images for reference.
>
> Dave
>
>