[Vm-dev] Re: Uploaded squeak-vm 3.11.3

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 19:03:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
> On 26.01.2010, at 05:31, José L. Redrejo wrote:
> >
> > I've just uploaded the latest version of the vm.
> > I've removed RomePlugin for all the archs, except i386. It's the only
> > one where I've tested it works.
> > I've also tempted of doing the same with ogg and gstreamer plugins, but
> > finally I've let them there. They segfaults often in amd64 too, but
> > don't do it unless the user tries to use those features. With Romeplugin
> > it was different: some squeak images (as etoys) have it activated by
> > default, so squeak segfaults when the image is loaded.
>
> Ah, right. I seem to remember there was a similar problem with Rome on the
> Mac. I'm cc'ing vm-dev ...
>
> > There are still some important bugs in Debian, and some very ugly
> > lintian messages. I don't have too much spare time, so I need some help
> > to deal with them:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497583 I have not ideas
> > to argue with this man. In fact, I think he might be totally right.
>
> Well, there is a source for this of course (in the VMMaker Squeak package).
> Generating the C code is a manual, interactive process and requires a
> running Squeak installation. Making that scriptable is possible, but so far
> nobody has done it AFAIK.
>

FYI, Peter von der Ahe did it in the Newspeak project.  This isn't entirely
relevant because some of this may be Newspeak code, but the source is
available from
http://newspeaklanguage.org/the-newspeak-programming-language/downloads/ &
newspeak-source-2009-10-28.zip<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/newspeakpl/newspeak-source-2009-10-28.zip>


>
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528774 : let's way how
> > the new package behaves in the autobuilders, but I'm not very
> > optimistic. My only idea is removing hppa arch from the package. Any
> > help in doing it is welcome too.
>
> Let's see how the new package builds, maybe it works better?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
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