[Vm-dev] VM build questions from last board meeting

[David T. Lewis]

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 06:13:40AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:13:01AM +0200, Jan Barger wrote:
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> > You fucket it up all Miranda and banda ... old snail squeak was best.  //
> > Good Bye
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> > 2018-03-23 1:59 GMT+01:00 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
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> > >
> > > Ping. We could do with some info on these questions...
> > >
> > > > On 08-03-2018, at 3:14 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At the last SOB meeting we had a couple of minutes discussion relating
> > > to some recent VM issues; this is just to wave the flag and remind us that
> > > they are out there and could do with answering by anyone that Knows The
> > > Truth.
> > > >
> > > > a) Squeak3D plugin is only built on ARM config. Simple oversight in
> > > config files?
> > > > b) B3DAcceleratorPlugin on Pi; it needs assorted gl.h files and there is
> > > no easy to spot doc of what packages have been installed on the autobuild
> > > Pi that provide them. In general that lead us to wonder if we can get some
> > > better documentation about the whole build/test/bintray setup on
> > > squeak.org so that we spread the knowledge a bit better.
> > > > c) Also Pi related - the Pi vms appear to be itimer versions, which
> > > appear to give somewhat variable performance. I have no problems building
> > > thread timer vms, which seem much more consistent. Why is the thread
> > > version a problem in the autobuilder world? Or is it a simple oversight?
> > > And why is the package naming of the form  squeak.cog.spur_linux32ARMv6_itimer_201803052012.tar.gz
> > > but the VM directory still named as sqcogspurlinuxhtRPi and thus looking
> > > like the threaded timer?
> > > >
> > > > tim
> > > > --
> > > > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > > > BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > tim
> > > --
> > > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > > 29A, the hexadecimal of the Beast.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ing. Jan Barger
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