Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-25 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 25 October 2013 10:52, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > Am 24.10.2013 um 12:51 schrieb Igor Stasenko : > > > > > On 24 October 2013 08:24, Norbert Hartl wrote: > >> >> >> Am 23.10.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Igor Stasenko : >> >> >> >> >> On 23 October 2013 23:13, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >>> >>> We

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-25 Thread Norbert Hartl
Am 24.10.2013 um 12:51 schrieb Igor Stasenko : > > > > On 24 October 2013 08:24, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > > Am 23.10.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Igor Stasenko : > >> >> >> >> On 23 October 2013 23:13, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >>> >>> >>> Well implementing ARM-FFI is largely orthogonal to A

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-25 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
Igor this is not the point. People do not understand that code can be represented as text :) If I save assembly in XML is it XML or assembly. I think that if you have a dll whose contents does not change then it is ok. Stef

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-25 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
> > Ok I was not aware you were thinking about that. So this is good to have this > path in my radar. > > Yes, this is actually what we discussed recently with Esteban about possible > alternatives and > low-hanging fruits :) I like these ones :) > >> Concerning ARM: >> - Damien Pollet wor

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-24 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 24 October 2013 08:24, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > > Am 23.10.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Igor Stasenko : > > > > > On 23 October 2013 23:13, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> >>> >> Well implementing ARM-FFI is largely orthogonal to Athens. >> Yes, i am happily using it for Cairo and it lets me customize /

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Norbert Hartl
> Am 23.10.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Igor Stasenko : > > > > >> On 23 October 2013 23:13, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >>> >>> Well implementing ARM-FFI is largely orthogonal to Athens. >>> Yes, i am happily using it for Cairo and it lets me customize /rethink >>> things as they go >>> without ne

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 23 October 2013 23:13, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> > Well implementing ARM-FFI is largely orthogonal to Athens. > Yes, i am happily using it for Cairo and it lets me customize /rethink > things as they go > without need to touch VM. Which means much faster development process and > feedback et

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
> > > Well implementing ARM-FFI is largely orthogonal to Athens. > Yes, i am happily using it for Cairo and it lets me customize /rethink things > as they go > without need to touch VM. Which means much faster development process and > feedback etc. > But since Athens API is settled down more

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
>> > > Igor it also means that we should find a way to get nativeboost wroking on > iPad (probably by generating a "DLL" from NB). > > aha.. and digitally sign it before you can use it.. and then ask nicely Apple > to approve it :) Yes :)

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread dimitris chloupis
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Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 23 October 2013 16:04, Henrik Johansen wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:52 , Stéphane Ducasse > wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > > > For the ipad , best would be to implement a quartz backend for athens. > As a temporary solution we could try to compile cairo l

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 23 October 2013 13:52, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > > > On 22 October 2013 16:09, J.F. Rick wrote: > >> I'm excited about the upcoming move to Athens graphics and would like to >> support that effort. It seems like the base is still under hea

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Henrik Johansen
On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:52 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > >> >> For the ipad , best would be to implement a quartz backend for athens. >> As a temporary solution we could try to compile cairo library for it, but i >> am not expert in iOS >> t

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread J.F. Rick
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > Mouse i much more precise than fingers. I doubt it going to be replaced. I > think it will stay. > "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. But cars eventually became more prevalent

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Stéphane Ducasse
On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > > On 22 October 2013 16:09, J.F. Rick wrote: > I'm excited about the upcoming move to Athens graphics and would like to > support that effort. It seems like the base is still under heavy development > and that I should use an up-to-date Pha

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-23 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 23 October 2013 08:12, J.F. Rick wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > >> The latest Pharo vms for all 3 major platforms support Athens with Cairo >> as backend. >> It is our starting point, one day we might choose to have different >> backend(s), like opengl etc. >

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-22 Thread J.F. Rick
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > The latest Pharo vms for all 3 major platforms support Athens with Cairo > as backend. > It is our starting point, one day we might choose to have different > backend(s), like opengl etc. > Excellent. I'm mainly using Linux. > For the ipa

Re: [Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-22 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 22 October 2013 16:09, J.F. Rick wrote: > I'm excited about the upcoming move to Athens graphics and would like to > support that effort. It seems like the base is still under heavy > development and that I should use an up-to-date Pharo 3.0 to properly use > it. Let me know if that is incorre

[Pharo-dev] VM for Athens Graphics

2013-10-22 Thread J.F. Rick
I'm excited about the upcoming move to Athens graphics and would like to support that effort. It seems like the base is still under heavy development and that I should use an up-to-date Pharo 3.0 to properly use it. Let me know if that is incorrect. I was wondering for what VMs Athens is applicabl