On 5 March 2012 22:26, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Igor, > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 4 March 2012 22:46, Jan van de Sandt <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > On the Pharo Jenkins server [1] there is a recent build of a VM with >> > NativeBoost support for the Mac. But the Unix version is six months old and >> > there is no Windows version. >> >> The Unix one was not built because i forgot to set the upstream project, :) >> so build doesn't triggers when everything else builds. >> The Windows one, i was built manually on my machine, because we were lacking >> windows slave for jenkins. >> You can download windows VM from nativeboost project downloads page: >> http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/downloads/list >> >> I'm not happy with VM i built (Cog + NativeBoost Win32 Binaries (7 Feb, >> 2012) ). >> I built the threaded VM, and besides the warning which pops up every >> time you launch it, >> i had couple crashes when simply loading MC packages. >> I am still not sure what happens, and need to investigate, because the >> other VM i built recently >> on another windows machine (by installing everything from scratch) >> behaves quite stable. > > > I would definitely treat the threaded VM as experimental for now. It is in > development (stalled due to lack of time), bleeding edge and very much not > ready for prime time. I used to use it regularly on Mac but then it started > locking up. I plan to get back to it this year sometime, but right now it is > "use at your own risk" and not something to inflict on the unwitting.
I know the status, Eliot. But also, i know that we need to give it a try. A community should help in developing it and testing.. You should not stand alone vs all dragons. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
