[Vm-dev] New Cog builds available: included Freetype plugin on macs by default

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 6 July 2011 16:27, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6 July 2011 15:22, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 6 July 2011 15:06, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > hi,
> >> >> > yes... this is another case of "premature questioning" :)
> >> >> > now... a stupid one: I don't have "configure" tool installed on my
> system. Do you know what I need to install to have it?
> >> >> > is a port?
> >> >> >
> >> >> yes, please read the http://code.google.com/p/cog/wiki/FT2Plugin
> >> >> (looks like you asked another premature question ;)
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Igor: if I understand correctly, there is something extra we should do
> now while building the VM (this stuff about FT2Plugin). Since Pharo does not
> use FT2Plugin by default since Pharo 1.0 what abut letting the default
> plugins as easier as possible for people trying to build VMs?  for those
> that want FT2Plugin then they can easily do it. Even Hudson can be
> configured to do:
> >> >
> >> > | config |
> >> > config := CogUnixConfig new.
> >> > config externalPlugins: (config externalPlugins copyWith:
> #MyHackyFirstPlugin).
> >> > config generateWithSources.
> >> >
> >>
> >> you don't want freetype plugin to be there by default in configs?
> >
> > exactly :)
> > But it is just my thought.  Change it only if you agree ;)
> >
> >>
> >> Okay, i will change that.
> >>
> >> But i think freetype is mustbe. As well as OSProcessPlugin.
> >> Maybe not in configs by default, but in hudson builds.
> >>
> >
> > Exactly that was my point: why to add by default a plugin which is not
> used since 2 years by default and adds problems or extra work?
>
> well, it is not used because we had problems with it. However guys who
> using pharo with other than latin-1 set of languages have no other
> options.
> I don't like that people had to copy a prebuilt plugin from other vms
> in order to make it work. We should ship it with VMs , so people could
> use it.
>
>
+1


> > So, -1 to put it in #defaultInternalPlugins or #defaultExternalPlugins
> and +1 tu set Hudson to add it.
>
> Alright. I will make changes then.
>
> > If OSProcessPlugin is easy to compile as the rest of the plugins, then I
> don't care to add it to #defaultXXXPlugins.
> >
> Good thing that it doesn't requires third-party source code. It should
> be much easier to build.
> But also, multiple people wants it. And generally, if we could have
> this plugin in our vms by default, then we could run build(s)
> from image , without need to deal with tedious and bizarre shell scripting.
>
>
+1


> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>



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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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