[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Fix issue #472 (#473)

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Stef,

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:59 AM Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>
wrote:

>
> > I understand if you don’t want to or are uninterested.  But if all
> that’s holding you back is anxiety that it’s really complicated I assure
> you that if you clone the opensmalltalk-vm repository, read and follow
> build.win32x86/HowToBuild that you’ll be able to build the vm within a few
> hours (setting up Cygwin or mingw is a big time consuming but not horribly
> so, and you only have to do it once).
> >
>
> Actually I have the whole thing set-up from last year when we started
> talking about the Squeak3D plugin.
>
> What is really holding me back is that I spend already too much time on
> my computer, doing Smalltalk stuff. The perspective of adding X hours of
> C debugging is not a nice one to contemplate.
>
> But I do not want my requests to be a burden to the VM team so if the
> need arises again (and I am afraid it will since it seems that not all
> edge cases are handled well by the plugin), then I will compile and test
> the code myself.
>

I think the useful thing for us is that you find reproducible cases and we
do the debugging.  So you building a VM helps us in finding the bugs.  I
don't expect you to fix the bugs, but it's been really productive with you
finding them.  We've collectively fixed some major bugs and are close to
having a reliable 3D renderer, which is cool.


>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Stef
>


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best, Eliot
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