When igor release athens, we will really ask him to get a 100% fully working FFI will be the most important task
Stef On Oct 31, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > The object-c bridge is probably a big deal to the Mac users among us, right? > My understand is that there are quite a few of you?? I've thought about it > myself, but that's another story. > > For external interfacing, I would very much like to see callbacks widely > supported; I'm thinking of solvers/minimizers etc., where one needs to tell > the library how to evaluate a function. FFI has been pretty good to me, and > Andreas described something that might be turned into a reusable callback > mechanism for it. Alien and NativeBoost are also options. It would be nice > if we had one external interface system that does it all. > > > > ________________________________________ > From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr > [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Noury Bouraqadi > [bouraq...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 11:17 AM > To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > Cc: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Brainstorming on the roadmap for first Pharo > Consortium Engineer :) > > What about adding to this todo list: > > -Fixing/finishing the Objective-C bridge :-) > During ESUG 2010 Esteban told me that there was a pb with the Mac VM that > causes the crash. > I believe this wasn't fixed and this is the biggest issue with the MARS > project. > > Noury > On 31 oct. 2011, at 11:54, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Hi guys >> >> we have a roadmap for Esteban and we would like to share it with you. We >> have extra items that we would like to see fixed and we are welcoming your >> feedback/suggestions. Note this is typically the way we want to work with >> the consortium in the future: >> Build an initial roadmap and refine it based on the input of the >> community. >> >> - A website for the consortium registration (esteban is expert on that). >> - This is important for INRIA and for the visibility of the consortium. >> We should get new members :) >> - Integration with SmalltalkHub >> >> - Working on fixing bugs! >> - Debugger fixes >> - Continuous bug fixing. >> >> - Improving release process: faster, more people involved, simpler. >> - Working on metacello repositories for each distributions (everything >> is there but missing last bits) >> - Metacello tools >> - Automatic release validations >> - Automatic validation of fixes >> >> Now the free items with probably igor involvement >> - Multiwindowing support >> - Fully working multithreaded FFI with ***Documentation*** >> - Filesystem fix and integration >> - Integration of OPAL >> - RPackage integration >> >> Igor related >> - Ephemerons >> - Object format >> - VM branding >> - Use of new canvas >> - Event cleaning >> >> So we are waiting for your suggestions. >> >> >> Stef >> >> >> >> > > Noury > -- > http://twitter.com/#!/NouryBouraqadi > > > > > > >
