[Vm-dev] Cog/JIT/Stack/VM .. executable names

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 13:27:53 UTC 2011


On 21 March 2011 13:15, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well... I need to make a paraphrasis of one of my childhood heroes here: "I fight for the users!" :)
>
> I think so much names and versions are misleading for end users (of course, it is useful for us)... but I think end users will have a hard travel if we start to rename everything.
> I think all the new vms are "Cog", not matter if stack, jit, or jit-mt. More important: jit-mt is the evolution of jit version, so nobody will use the older once mt is tested enough.
>
> So, I rather name the vms:
>
> Cog Stack (or something more appealing for end users like "Cog Universal")
> Cog 1.0
> Cog 2.0
>
> ... or something like that
>
> (I know, I'm minority in this, but I needed to express my point of view, just for the record :) )
>

Not at all.
At a time of release, we can always rename VM to
Squeak/Cog/Pharo/Croquet/whatever and ship it with corresponding
image(s) in 1-click package.
As you said, we need it internally (and especially during transition)
because it is much nicer to have distinct names for every kind of VMs
we're using/testing/developing.

> best,
> Esteban
>


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