Re: Status of Strongtalk C++ code: VM stability and progress on a graphical debugger

talksmall <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Mar 2008 02:42:09 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.strongtalk
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Gilad,
I know Eliot expressed an interest in porting the VM to Mac OSX late
on last year. It was just before Christmas, so it may just be
gathering dust. If not, I'd be interested to know how he got on.

Regards, talksmall

On Mar 4, 4:02 am, "Gilad Bracha" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shaping,
>
> What about a complete procedure for building from the latest C++
> (pure) source?
>
> That isn't something I can help you with, I'm afraid. Others have worked on
> these issues, and hopefully someone will respond to you soon.
>
> I wish I could do more, but I haven't followed the mechanics of the project
> since helping with the initial public  release in 2006; I'm not a VM hacker,
> and I  am not actually working on Strongtalk at the moment. Instead, I'm
> focused on my new language, Newspeak.  I hope that at some point we can use
> the Strongtalk VM to run Newspeak - when Strongtalk is stable enough.
>
> I think you are absolutely right to focus on questions about the overall
> stability of the system.  I haven't seen much happen on that front since the
> VM source was made available, which is too bad, because that is what is
> critical and hard.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gilad
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