[Vm-dev] Sounds baaad sounds

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 07:13:04 UTC 2011


Thanks david this is a good idea.
> 
> Regardless of how these packages might be reorganized in the future,
> one thing that can be of immediate practical benefit is to document
> the dependencies in the form of unit tests.
> 
> I have started a few tests in SqS/VMMaker/MiscPrimitivePluginTest
> (prompted primarily by a Pharo refactoring that has been causing
> problems for VMMaker). This has several benefits - it documents the
> dependencies; it makes it easy to detect that a change in the image
> is causing problems for VM code generation; and it lets you know
> if you are running a VM (plugin) that is missing support for some
> primitive that should have been generated from source in the image.
> 
> If sound is a potential source of problems, then it would be great
> if someone can add some more tests to provide coverage for those
> dependencies. 
> 
> Dave
> 



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