GNU Smalltalk 3.2, good and bad news

The good news is that I think we are very close to a release.  I'll try
to do it this month.

The bad news is that the state of the Windows port is quite bad once
more.  This weekend I finally got round to making a binary installer for
Windows, only to find out that the new GTK+ event loop triggers a bug in
GLib (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615480).

Among the most important new features of the VM is 0% CPU usage when
idle.  So, the new event loop is a necessity rather than something nice
to have, and I cannot (and don't want) absolutely revert it.

For 3.3 I have a plan of merging the GLib event loop into the VM.  If
the above bug is fixed, this would mean getting rid of much
system-dependent code in GNU Smalltalk and getting sockets to work
automagically under Windows too.

I managed to make a relatively small test case, and I'm confident that
the GLib developers will fix the bug soon.  If so, at least VisualGST
would work.  However, Windows support in general is officially delayed
to GNU Smalltalk 3.3.

If you want to peek at the Windows packaging, you can look in my git
repo at http://github.com/bonzini/smalltalk/commits/nsis

Paolo


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Bad news I don't want to hear :-( since my main development platform is Windows. Alright, I guess I'll have to wait until 3.3 release...

Seeing the "bad news" in the subject I immediately guessed that it is about the Windows port :)

There has been a lot of changes since 3.1, so having a new release even without the Windows support would be more than great, I think. Looking forward to it...

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:21:56 -0800 (PST)
ZuLuuuuuu <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Seeing the "bad news" in the subject I immediately guessed that it is about
> the Windows port :)
>
> There has been a lot of changes since 3.1, so having a new release even
> without the Windows support would be more than great, I think. Looking
> forward to it...

However, a current release would allow running a iliad app
on a windows server, wouldn't it?

s.


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On 04/12/2010 07:09 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
With Cygwin it should.  Not natively.

Paolo


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