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

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 11:43:01AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
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> 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:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>On 3. Mar 2018, at 15:08, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > >Hey!
> > >
> > >
> > >>>Squeak devs opposed this so we are guarding it with PharoVM.
> > >>
> > >>Can you point me to the discussion?
> > >
> > >Sure. It is my thread from 2016. 
> > >http://forum.world.st/Adding-new-primitives-to-FilePlugin-td4916711.html
> > 
> > Maybe it's just me, but I don't see any opposition in that thread.
> > 
> > Levente
> >
> 
> 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.
> 

I should have looked at the code before replying. The Windows implementation
would be trivial, but it does not make any sense.

Sorry for the noise,
Dave