Re: VMMaker( Re: KCP & 3.6)

"PhiHo Hoang" <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:01:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.foundation
Message-ID <200e01c3373c$c9559360$c70c010a@phiho>
Hi Andreas,

>>     Talking about VMMaker, I recall someone suggested that
>>     the plugins code could be generated just once and be used
> >    as either internal or external plugins.
>>
>>     What's the status of the review on this proposal ?

> VMMaker does this for a long time already. It's all in the build flags
which
> effectively tell the build process which plugins to compile internally and
> which ones to compile externally. Have a look at the generated
"plugins.int"
> and "plugins.ext" file.

    My bad ;-)

    There may be other new features in VMMaker documented somewhere ?
    Thanks for the pointers.

    BTW, is there a list of plugins that can be built as external plugins
    for the upcoming releases ?  I like to try it out.

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.