[Vm-dev] Attempting to move Cog to Git(Hub)

[Fabio Niephaus]

It's slowly happening, but I hope it /is/ happening ;)

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:25 PM Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> and I forget to mention that I’m highly excited with the idea of moving
> the development to git/github :)
>
> thank you very much for this, Fabio!
>
> Esteban
>
> On 30 Mar 2016, at 15:11, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30 Mar 2016, at 15:03, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been playing around with Cog to see what it'd take to move the code
> to git.
> GitHub's svn importer [1] isn't very reliable I think (some directories
> were actually
> missing), but eventually I managed to convert the entire svn repo to git
> [2].
>
> Also, I have been able to build different Cog VMs automatically on Travis
> CI.
>
>
> yes, we are doing this since some time… one of the many advantages of
> being in git/github.
> (we also run pharo tests so we can "more or less” test the vm
> automatically.
>
> Eventually we might be able to do the same with Squeak, but first things
first ;)

>
>
> For a working build, see [3]. You can download the results at [4]. Please
> keep
> in mind that this is still a "test" ;)
>
> Eliot was also concerned how the version info will be maintained and I
> have a
> simple proposal:
>
> Each Cog release will be a git tag and for the version itself we could use
> semantic versioning [3]. Then the build version is the git tag, the date
> is the
> commit date and the URL is the "remote.origin.url”.
>
>
> +1
> (but I think Eliot was concerned on the history already present in svn…
> for that, there are tools that migrate svn to git with all history,
> something like this: http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git)
>
> I will do another clean migration locally and a proper integrity check. I
wouldn't want to use the GitHub importer

>
>
> Here's an example:
> ====================================================================
> 5.0-v0.1.0  Wed Mar 30 12:01:50 UTC 2016 gcc 4.6.3 [Production Spur 64-bit
> VM]
> CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.1740 uuid:
> 10ece78d-d04d-4ad2-8598-e496b6a6097c Mar 30 2016
> StackToRegisterMappingCogit VMMaker.oscog-eem.1740 uuid:
> 10ece78d-d04d-4ad2-8598-e496b6a6097c Mar 30 2016
> VM: v0.1.0 https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git Date: Wed Mar 30
> 13:58:46 2016 +0200
> Plugins: v0.1.0 https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak.git
> Linux testing-worker-linux-docker-9d959019-3394-linux-16 3.13.0-40-generic
> #69-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:53:56 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> plugin path: ./products/nscogspur64linuxht/lib/nsvm/5.0-v0.1.0 [default:
> /home/idea4it/products/nscogspur64linuxht/lib/nsvm/5.0-v0.1.0/]
> ====================================================================
>
> Any further suggestions? :)
>
>
> “squeak” is a bad name :)
> “cog-vm”, “squeak-vm” (anything with “vm”, in fact) would be better :)
>
> Sure thing, "squeak" was automatically created by the GitHub importer.
Also, the repo won't be owned by my personal account ;)
But that is the easy part :)

>
>
>
> Best,
> Fabio
>
>
> cheers!
> Esteban
>
>
> [1] https://import.github.com/
> [2] https://github.com/fniephaus/squeak/tree/Cog
> [3] https://travis-ci.org/fniephaus/squeak/builds/119507180
> [4] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/artefacts/cog/v0.1.0/
> [5] http://semver.org/
>
>
>
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