On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I want make a little report about progress with making of Fedora > pakcages for Smalltalk related projects (StackVM, CogVM, Pharo...) by > Jaroslav Škarvada. > > Currently there are three packages in Fedora repositories - squeak-vm, > squeak-image and squeak-vm-nonXOplugins (that contains plugins like > OSProcess). It uses resources from the Squeak site. > > Red Hat has quite restrictive demands on packages and it is a small > miracle that they tolerate current squeak packages :-). The conditions > simply do expect that a program is a set of source codes and not a > system of communicating objects. One problem is that Squeak VM is one > of few metacircular packages that are needed for their own building. > Because binary executables are prohibited, it would require a special > bureaucratically problematic exception. Fortunately for virtual > machine generation we may use the current squeak packages - more > precisely their updated versions. The next issue for virtual machine > generation may be the fact, that some packages used for VM generation > are in repositories with public read&write permissions. > > Because image can be likened to *.jar files that are prohibited and > must be recompiled during package generation, we are lucky that > squeak-image package is currently accepted. If someone starts > tinkering, we are in big trouble. > > There is a little issue with *.sources placement. The current VM > package contains symlinks from VM path to sources files that are > present in package with the image. This is really ugly solution. > Squeak and Pharo uses this sequence for sources lookup: vm path, image > path, current path. So I think that the best solution will be to have > sources file in the image package, do not have symlinks in vm package > and to create symlink to sources together with changes in the image > path via mysqueak initialization script. > > Btw., Jaroslav told me that he saw a lot of creepy projects but > nothing like Squeak VM :-) > > And there is a mess in VM versioning. What is the latest CogVM/StackVM > version number? > How so? My latest version is SVN http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog/ r2519. Monticello package http://source.squeak.org/VMMaker/VMMaker.oscog-eem.139. > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > > -- best, Eliot
