On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:58:41PM +0100, St?phane Ducasse wrote:
> 
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 8:51 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:52:07PM +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> >> Hi John! I have just download the vm and played for a while. I have a good
> >> news and a bad one.
> >> 
> >> The good news is that the bug of the double copy past seems to be gone 
> >> away.
> >> Maybe because what you said about "lack mac menu integration". I should
> >> check because if then, when you do that, I have the double paste bug again,
> >> at least we know where it comes from :)
> >> 
> >> The bad news is that FFI is not working, but it is ok as you said the only
> >> plugin you compile was FreeType and it seems to be working for me :)
> > 
> > FFI will not work on any 64-bit VM. Details here:
> > 
> >  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7237
> >  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2008-May/001945.html
> 
> Dave 
> 
> Do you mean without your fixes?
> BTW Do you know the status of alien on other platform than mac?

64-bit FFI will work on Unix and Windows with these fixes. I have not
tried Mac, but I expect that some work would be needed. The changes
are not trivial, and will affect the plugin, the VM itself, and the
Pharo/Squeak images.

The next big fix on our VM-team "to-do list" is to get sound working
on 64-bit platforms, and FFI will come after that.

I do not know the status of alien now, but my understanding is that
it is limited to intel processors and 32-bit platforms. My guess is
that it would be good to fix the old FFI first because those changes
would likely have an impact on alien also. But I do not know much
about alien, so I am not the best person to say.

Dave


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