[Vm-dev] VM Automated builds update

[Igor Stasenko]

On 15 March 2011 16:35, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:08:17PM +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 March 2011 15:00, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:52:58PM +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here jobs which are working now and you can download produced
>>>>> artifacts from them:
>>>>
>>>> Will there be any automated builds of the stable non-cog VMs?
>>>
>>> If someone could adopt it , then why not.
>>> I simply don't have time for it. Sorry :(
>>>
>>> We decided to go with Stack and JIT Cog into future, and leave old VM
>>> behind.
>>> It is too much time and energy to maintain 3 different VMs on 3+
>>> different platforms.
>>
>> if not maintain, then how about build a final release to say
>> goodbye to the platform? We're stuck running
>
> Note that Igor is a paid Pharo developer, he's talking about Pharo's
> decision. Squeak developers plan to support the interpreter VMs for a while
> to give people more time for the transition to CogVM (which as you already
> noticed doesn't have all the features of SqueakVM yet).
>

Yes.
Stack-based VMs are very close to old Squeak VM. And i don't expect
much pain in transition (there is some plugins which is broken, but
most of them functional).
The problem was (and with Hudson is now fixed) that nobody cared to
build Stack VMs and make them public,
so people could try and see if it works for them.


>> cobalt on Squeak 3.8 until one of the following two happen:
>>
>> There is a windows interpreter VM able to run cog images, and
>> newer than april 2010, and there is a mac interpreter VM with
>
> Andreas is the maintainer of the Windows SqueakVM. He's busy nowadays, but
> I'm sure he will release a new Windows VM in the near future. But if you're
> impatient, then you can build one yourself and see if anything has to be
> fixed.
>
>> all the plugins. The unix 4.4.7 VM released for squeak 4.2 works
>> great; I wish there was a windows and mac vm like it
>
> Try the 5.7.4 Mac VM, if it's built from the latest VMMaker sources (which I
> guess it is), then it should be like the 4.4.7 Unix VM.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> OR
>>
>> all the kinks get worked out of cog
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Fulmer (a.k.a. Tapple)
>>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.