[Vm-dev] VM Maker: VMMaker.oscog-akg.2340.mcz

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 04:50:40PM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018, Holger Freyther wrote:
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> >>On 3. Mar 2018, at 15:08, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
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> >Hey!
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> >>>Squeak devs opposed this so we are guarding it with PharoVM.
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> >>Can you point me to the discussion?
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> >Sure. It is my thread from 2016. 
> >http://forum.world.st/Adding-new-primitives-to-FilePlugin-td4916711.html
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> Maybe it's just me, but I don't see any opposition in that thread.
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> Levente
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For my part, I was recommending a way to proceed, that's all.

Regarding the "#if PharoVM", I don't see a need for this. After all, people
who do not want to use a primitive are free to not use it.

I do think that a working implementation should be provided for Windows.
A Windows HANDLE is roughly equivalent to a Unix file descriptor, and the
*file element of SQFile is a HANDLE, so I expect that the implementation
should be trivial.

Dave