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> Date: April 20, 2010 7:56:58 PM GMT+02:00
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> Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Running Alien on Windows
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> From: stephane ducasse <[email protected]>
> Date: April 20, 2010 7:56:51 PM GMT+02:00
> To: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion 
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> Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Running Alien on Windows
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> 
> Thanks torsten for the summary
> 
>>> Would not work out of the box with the VM since it requires 
>> VM changes. Marco ported them from Newspeak 
>> and made them available [1]. Tests went green and 
>> he is sucessfully using Alien on Windows. But it is not yet
>> in the official Squeak VM (which is 4.0.2.).
>> 
>> There is also an issue for pharo [2] and an issue for 
> 
> I read [2] but I could not get what was needed from our side
> 
>> VM developers [3] to follow progress. 
>> 
>> So the code is there and is ready for integration.
>> Andreas asked for the license [4], Marco answered
>> that code was from Newspeak [5].
>> 
>> After that we got a good response from John McIntosh
>> on the license issue [6] which should be OK now.
>> (Dont know, I'm not a lawyer)
>> 
>> After I asked Andreas again he answered that it is not 
>> highest priority for him which I understood since
>> Squeak 4.1 was in preparation. See last response
>> regarding this [7]
>> 
>> Dont know what should be the next steps to get Alien
>> into the Win32-VM code base. Maybe Andreas could tell
>> you more.
>> 
>> As a workaround you could use the source provided 
>> by Marco to build your own unofficial VM - however
>> you would have to reintegrate anytime Andreas makes
>> a new release...
> 
> May be I'm in a good mood but I think that andreas will do it when he got 
> time.
> I know what is losing time on a lot of tiny boring stuff that must be done.
>> 
>> Bye
>> T.
>> 
>> [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/003983.html
>> [2] http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1360
>> [3] http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7475
>> [4] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004034.html
>> [5] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004037.html
>> [6] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004054.html
>> [7] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-
>> March/004103.html
>> 
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