[squeak-dev] Re: macintosh carbon VM goes to legacy status.
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Nov 14 14:53:11 UTC 2009
On 14.11.2009, at 03:56, John M McIntosh wrote:
> The macintosh carbon VM is going into a legacy support state.
>
> Why?
>
> ESUG has provided me with some funds to help build a new 32/64 bit Cocoa (intel/ppc) based Squeak VM, please don't forget to thank them for supporting the community.
>
> Today based on the iPhone VM tree and many more hours of effort I managed to start up a 64 bit intel based Cocoa VM using a 32bit squeak image.
>
> I still have a "bit" more to go in order to get the keyboard logic to correctly mimic the older carbon behaviour, so I won't start public beta testing until the end of the month.
> And it only feels like a sea of "warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size" to work thru, but previous efforts by folks like David T Lewis has reduced that to I think
> a manageable issue.
>
> If you are interested in alpha testing the VM please email me privately and I'll see if I can get you a workable VM by the end of next week.
>
> The primary project goal is to:
>
> Build a new cocoa based 32/64bit intel/ppc VM with an MIT license, basically from scratch, to enable the ability to use a 32bit image or 64bit image.
>
> Some other objectives:
>
> To build it from scratch using the 4.2.2 VM as a reference
> To ensure the xcode project can build both an OSX VM and a iPhone VM.
> Port as little code from the past, excluding the Socket and basic file I/O logic.
> Other plugins address as needed.
>
> --
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> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882
> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
> ===========================================================================
Yay! Thanks ESUG :)
Hope this will make it easier to revamp the browser plugin, too?
- Bert -
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