<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Andy, Any chance you could build a Win 32 version of the VM for the > release? VM's for other platforms would also be nice too. It would be > really great to release on two platforms at once. > > The versions to use are: > Exupery-wbk.219 > VMMAker-wbk.42 >
No problem. Any particular version of the SVN vm sources? Are you building the vm from a 3.8 basic image, 3.8 full, or 3.9? It may not make any difference, but I would like to build from the exact-same setup that you use. > The big decision was really between releasing on VMMaker 3.8b3 based > VMs or upgrading to VMMaker 3.8b6. We're hoping that upgrading will > solve the problems that the Mac x86 port is having. Hopefully a Mac > port should appear during 0.11 development. Upgrading VMMaker risks > destabilizing this release, and also makes it harder for the ports > that exist to build VMs to go with the release. > > I've now got a working 3.9 development image based on the squeak-dev > images. I'll include that image along with the release. The exupery39 > versions are the port to 3.9. The only problems have been with tests. > 23 tests were failing because the bytecodes are all 8 bytes further > down in the MethodContexts in 3.9. One test was failing due to a bug > fix in 3.9. Exupery currently works in both 3.8 and 3.9 images but not > all the tests will pass in both images. > > I've moved all the VM code into the VMMaker package, this is to make > it easier to see when a new VM may be needed. If the VMMaker package > hasn't changed then none of the VM code will have changed. If it > hasn't then all the changes were in image side code. Previously there > is no easy way to see if a new VM is required between different > versions of Exupery > > The release will be built on 3.8, with the old well tested VMMaker > 3.8b3 VMs and will include a 3.9 developer image with the tests fixed. > So the release image will be slightly ahead of the release but only > tests will have changed. > > Bryce _______________________________________________ Exupery mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/exupery
