[Vm-dev] ConfigurationOfPharoVM

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 16:47:22 UTC 2012


On 20 January 2012 16:01, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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,
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>>> 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?
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> PharoVMMaker is for CMakeVMMaker configs... there is no a PharoVMMaker
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>> is it branch of VMMaker?
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> no
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>> 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.
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> we are not making a branch, just a CMakeVMMaker config for pharo branding (or for squeak, etc.)
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ah... phew.. i feared the worst
naming is confusing :)
nevermind then. you did the right thing

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.


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