[Vm-dev] [ANN] New Cocoa Squeak VM release

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 02.02.2011, at 21:43, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:

> El 02/02/2011, a las 3:35p.m., Bert Freudenberg escribió:
>> 
>> Could you make "Smalltalk vmVersion" return that too? This is what John's VM answered:
> 
> oops... I'll do that 
> 
>> IMHO, the "dangerous" plugins which allow calling native code should not be internal, so they can easily be removed:
>> 
>> FFIPlugin
>> NewsqueakIA32ABIPlugin 
>> ObjectiveCPlugin
> 
> I dunno, they are really necessary for doing "modern" programming this days... but I'll take a look :)
> Anyway, soon or latter we will need to adopt *one* FFI approach, there is no sense in maintain two plugins (or three) with the same purpose. 

I'm just saying they should be external plugins in the resources folder, not internal. That's how John did it too (though he suggested to make them simple dylibs instead of the "fat" bundles).

>> Also, the interpreter VMs used to bundle quite a lot of plugins. Is there a reason you left them out?
> 
> yes... right now I'm just continuing John's work... the 5.x series (cocoa squeak vm) lacks a lot of plugins compiled for it (in fact almost all of them). It's in my agenda compile the plugins, but I'm still assuming the role, and not a lot of time, you know. But they will be there, some time :)

Thanks!

- Bert -