[Vm-dev] ConfigurationOfPharoVM

[Esteban Lorenzano]

El 20/01/2012, a las 11:42a.m., Igor Stasenko escribió:

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> On 20 January 2012 13:07, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> ConfigurationOfPharoVM is intended to build pharo distributions of cog vm... packaged with pharo icons, etc.
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>> Since is a re-packaging and re-branding, it has sense (IMHO) to keep it separated. Squeak guys may want their own, for instance and also Cobalt, Cuis, etc... so I don't consider adequate to pollute ConfigurationOfCog with this branded builds.
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> yes, but you missed second question:
>  why it uses PharoVMMaker?


PharoVMMaker is for CMakeVMMaker configs... there is no a PharoVMMaker

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> is it branch of VMMaker?

no

> My thoughts on it, that instead of making branch (with which you will
> need to merge all the time), create an extra package with patches you
> need for Pharo VM, and load it after "vanilla" VMMaker package.
> Because if we will have so many branches it will be really hard to
> keep them all up to date.

we are not making a branch, just a CMakeVMMaker config for pharo branding (or for squeak, etc.)
 

> 
>> Cheers,
>> Esteban
>> 
>> El 20/01/2012, a las 7:08a.m., Camillo Bruni escribió:
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>>> Why do we have a separate config named ConfigurationOfPharoVM for PharoVMMaker?
>>> 
>>> Unless there are significant changes in PharoVMMaker wouldn't it make sense to rely on the default Configuration and tag the proper releases?
>>> 
>>> best
>>> cami
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> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.