[Vm-dev] The code in the src folders in the repository

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 07:51:11AM +0000, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
>  
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:02 AM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:11:28AM -0300, Laura Perez Cerrato wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Excuse me if this has been asked already or it's documented somewhere
> > and I
> > > missed it, but what's the criteria to update the code in /src, /stacksrc,
> > > /spursrc and other similar folders in the repository?
> > >
> > > -Laura Perez Cerrato
> >
> > Good question. Traditionally, Eliot generates these sources periodically
> > and
> > commits them to the repository (and in recent years I have done that chore
> > for
> > the old trunk interpreter VM). At this point, unless Eliot advises
> > otherwise,
> > I would suggest that no one other than Eliot should commit to the /src
> > trees.
> >
> >
> AFAIK the pharo-vm projects generates the sources from the VMMaker package
> during a build.
> Wouldn't it be better if the OpenSmalltalk vm does the same? Then no one
> needs to generate source manually anymore and we don't have millions of
> lines [2] of generated code in the repository.
> 
> Fabio
> 
> [1] https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm
> [2] see Eliot's stats at
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/vm/graphs/contributors
> 
> -- 

Yes of course it should be automated. My suggestion is that at this point,
or at least until Eliot says otherwise, Eliot should be the only person who
commits to the /src directories. One step at a time :-)

And of course we can do whatever is necessary in the various branches.

Dave