I hope that we will get an engineer paid by inria but this will not be before 
september 2010.
we should get some news in a couple of weeks. 
Stef

On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:

> Havent followed this thread and currently lacking some time.
> The VMMaker config is changeable, so go ahead. 
> 
> Take care that it also works in latest Squeak trunk. 
> Since most VM maintainers use Squeak to build the VM this is 
> essential to follow their progress.
> 
> Would also be a great move if Alien would be available on Windows - 
> this would open the door to interfacing with Win technologies like
> COM or .NET (and therefore wake more commercial interest in Pharo).
> Having Alien on major OS platforms would also allow to use Smalltalk<->
> Java bridging technologies like JavaConnect/JNIPort, 
> 
> Bye
> T.
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0100
>> Von: Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>
>> An: [email protected]
>> CC: Arnaud Jean-Baptiste <[email protected]>, Torsten Bergmann 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: Re: [Pharo-project] Trying to build alien plugin in linux
> 
>> Torsten and JB: it would be cool to create a new metacello configuration
>> version with this new version of VMMaker, puting the fix about the
>> baseHeaderSize and integrating JB fixes to VMMaker.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Mariano
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Fernando olivero
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:19 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 2010-02-22, at 6:48 PM, Javier Pimás wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Lastly, as I said when I loaded Alien Core the first time, I got this
>>> error while loading it:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alien class>>#ensureInSpecialObjectsArray: "Index probably wrong".
>>>>> 
>>>>> What should I do about that? ignore it?
>>>> 
>>>> Well it seems to be related to
>>>> 
>>>>      ((Smalltalk includesKey: #ObjectMemory)
>>>>       and: [((Smalltalk at: #ObjectMemory) classPool at: #ClassAlien
>>> ifAbsent: []) ~~ (index - 1)]) ifTrue:
>>>>              [self error: 'index probably wrong'].
>>>> 
>>>> Usually people don't have ObjectMemory loaded in their image, and I"m
>> not
>>> sure what it is check for.
>>>> Why don't you try it in a regular Pharo image versus your VMMaker
>> image.
>>> 
>>> Great work Jorge! Nice to know you won the battle against VMMaker!
>>> 
>>> The ensure in special objects array error, has to do with some missing
>>> classes as John pointed out.
>>> 
>>> The smalltalk special objects array has hardcoded indexes for some
>> relevant
>>> classes ( Globals) in the system.
>>> In the alien configuration i've just ensured that the size should be 53,
>>> before loading Alien, because the Alien code installs itself in that
>> array
>>> at positions 54 and 55.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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