On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Eliot Miranda <
eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Pavel Krivanek <
pavel.krivanek@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I want make a little report about progress with making of Fedora
>> pakcages for Smalltalk related projects (StackVM, CogVM, Pharo...) by
>> Jaroslav ��karvada.
>>
>> Currently there are three packages in Fedora repositories - squeak-vm,
>> squeak-image and squeak-vm-nonXOplugins (that contains plugins like
>> OSProcess). It uses resources from the Squeak site.
>>
>> Red Hat has quite restrictive demands on packages and it is a small
>> miracle that they tolerate current squeak packages :-). The conditions
>> simply do expect that a program is a set of source codes and not a
>> system of communicating objects. One problem is that Squeak VM is one
>> of few metacircular packages that are needed for their own building.
>> Because binary executables are prohibited, it would require a special
>> bureaucratically problematic exception. Fortunately for virtual
>> machine generation we may use the current squeak packages - more
>> precisely their updated versions. The next issue for virtual machine
>> generation may be the fact, that some packages used for VM generation
>> are in repositories with public read&write permissions.
>>
>> Because image can be likened to *.jar files that are prohibited and
>> must be recompiled during package generation, we are lucky that
>> squeak-image package is currently accepted. If someone starts
>> tinkering, we are in big trouble.
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>> There is a little issue with *.sources placement. The current VM
>> package contains symlinks from VM path to sources files that are
>> present in package with the image. This is really ugly solution.
>> Squeak and Pharo uses this sequence for sources lookup: vm path, image
>> path, current path. So I think that the best solution will be to have
>> sources file in the image package, do not have symlinks in vm package
>> and to create symlink to sources together with changes in the image
>> path via mysqueak initialization script.
>>
>> Btw., Jaroslav told me that he saw a lot of creepy projects but
>> nothing like Squeak VM :-)
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>> And there is a mess in VM versioning. What is the latest CogVM/StackVM
>> version number?
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> How so? ��My latest version is SVN
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http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/ r2519. ��Monticello package
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http://source.squeak.org/VMMaker/VMMaker.oscog-eem.139.