On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Esteban. I DID notice that the book was "outdated". The thing is that > we have to decide, as the Pharo community, if it is outdated or just > another alternative. > > Eliot's way of building the VM is different than "our". We use > ConfigurationOfCog + CMakeVMMaker + Git. Eliot uses another way. > > So what is documented in the pharo book is kind of Eliot way. > > We have to decide as a community what do we expect when building cog. Is > ConfigurationOfCog + CMakeVMMaker + Git the OFFICIAL Pharo way of building > the VM? If we do agree on this, then yes, we should update the book. > Something different is if ConfigurationOfCog + CMakeVMMaker + Git is just > ANOTHER way of bulding the VM, in which case I don't see as incorrect what > is in the pharo book. > > > Guess my answer :) > Why would we throw away the three months igor spent making sure that idiot > like me can compile the VM without problems. > I know your answer. I would recommend that way also, but (answering to Esteban), I don't have such time. My effort is in writing as much as I can (for example, in the blog). I cannot do more right now, since I am getting inside the last year of my PhD. Apart from that, Stef took some of my posts and transform them into PBE2 chapters.... we don't have manpower to have to books talking about the same. So I would rather go in the effort of continuing such chapters. Is there someone willing to help? > And more important Git (which I hate for my article) is socially the way > to go for the VM = message to cool C hackers > yes you are welcome to clean and improve our VM (it deserves it and once > of these days we will have to do something… because > we are losing against simpler, nicer VM like lua (C-embedding, ….). > JB is fighting to get the stack vm compiling on a funky micro pro and the > VM dusty code is getting in our way. > > Stef > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
