[squeak-dev] Choice of image for OMeta?

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 17:16:48 UTC 2010


It's a .sar on the OMeta home page. 

On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Michael for your encouragement to just try it.
> 
> 1) Add http repository www.squeaksource.com/OMeta in the Monticello Browser
> 
> 2a) Load the package 'OMeta2-preload'
> 2b) Load the package 'OMeta2'
> 2c) Load the package 'OMeta2-postload'
> 
> 3) Evaluate the example
> OMeta2Examples match: 3 with: #fact
> 
> I did this in the image http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.2-10382-alpha.zip
> 
> Thank to Hans-Martin Mosner, I assume for making this a very smooth experience.
> 
> --Hannes
> 
> 
> Follow up question to Casey: Where do you get your JavaScript interpreter from?
> 
> ===================
> 
> www.squeaksource.com/OMeta2 refers to
> http://tinlizzie.org/~awarth/ometa/ometa2.html
> for more information
> 
> There is a note about
> 
> Known Issues
> # This implementation uses Squeak's array literals ({...}), so it
> won't work on other flavors of Smalltalk. I'll fix this over the next
> few days.
> # The Squeak debugger complains about OMeta rules — syntax error —
> because it doesn't know about OMeta syntax. I have a plan to fix this,
> but it's part of a bigger project (the OmniDebugger) which will take
> some time to implement. Please let me know if you know of any quick
> fixes.
> 
> Is this info still up to date?
> 
> On 8/25/10, Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> According to
>> http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/
>> it works in both 3.8 and 3.9.
>> 
>> I think both are fine and I am interested in reading about your
>> experience of loading it into Squeak 4.1trunk.
>> 
>> --Hannes
>> 
>> More about OMeta
>> http://www.tinlizzie.org/~awarth/
>> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/ometa
>> 
>> Do you have other links?
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/25/10, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Given the choice of 3.8, or 3.9, do folks have a general suggestion? I've
>>> heard there were some "sweet" images over the years. I'm of course going
>>> to
>>> be unable to resist loading OMeta into a trunk image; I have low
>>> expectations for success with that, but I'm kind of interested in seeing
>>> what the difference is in the performance of the Javascript
>>> implementation
>>> when Cog is at the bottom of the stack. So I was thinking that I'd get it
>>> loaded into an older image, and try to get to know it there.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Casey Ransberger
>>> 
>> 
> 



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