Re: fixes before 3.4gamma

Doug Way wrote:

> At first I thought VMMaker was a somewhat obscure tool
> to add to the open menu, but now I think it's a good idea
> to have there.  For newbies, it will drive home the point
> that Squeak lets you build your own VMs relatively easily.
> "I can't do that in Java!"

    Actually, to drive it really really home sweet home,
    let them know that even just a bunch of plugins would do as well.

    And what about the 'oldbies' :-)

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.

    P.S: Hmm, do we have a PluginsMaker ;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Way" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Squeakfoundation]fixes before 3.4gamma


>
> Robert Withers wrote:
> >
> > > 6. VMMakerNicerFor3.4-nk (16 December 2002)
> > > - VMMaker-only fix, won't hurt anyone else.  (Oops, wait a minute,
> > > this changeset seems to open VMMaker as a side-effect of executing
> > > "VMMaker initialize" in the postscript?  We don't want that!  Help,
> > > Ned. :) )
> > >
> > > 7. TestRunnerInWorldMenu-nk (16 December 2002)
> > > - I also agree this should be in the open... menu.  It does the safe
> > > menu-registering thing.
> >
> > how would you all feel about putting vm maker in the open menu, as well?
>
> Actually, the VMMakerNicerFor3.4 changeset already adds it to the open
menu (via the safe menu registration), so I hope that answers your question.
:-)
>
> At first I thought VMMaker was a somewhat obscure tool to add to the open
menu, but now I think it's a good idea to have there.  For newbies, it will
drive home the point that Squeak lets you build your own VMs relatively
easily.  "I can't do that in Java!"
>
> - Doug
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