New Windows VM: 4.0.1

>
> Folks -
>
> I've built a new Windows VM for the upcoming release (mostly to fix the
> SqueakMap problem). Good thing I tried it first - it turns out that my
> earlier fix for SqueakMap had fixed one particular version of the problem,
> but there was another variant that it hadn't addressed (now it does). With
> this VM I can use SqueakMap successfully.
>
> However, since this was a major version switch I've also changed two more
> issues that came up in the past:
>
> 1) The VM will now default to pass the window close event to the image
> instead of handling it directly. You can see that in a current trunk image
> by clicking on the close button (you'll now get a Squeak notifier instead of
> the previous VM notifier). The old behavior is still available if you
> SHIFT-Click on the close button. This is very useful if your image hangs.
>
> 2) The VM name now reflects the version. In other words, this VM is called
> Squeak4.0.1.exe to make it easier to distinguish between versions.
> Unfortunately this also means you'll heave to create a new association if
> you want to use this VM (hopefully, the installer will take care of that
> later).
>
> As always the VM is available here:
>
> http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-bin.zip
> http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-src.zip
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>

>
>
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 13:59 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Folks -
>>
>> I've built a new Windows VM for the upcoming release (mostly to fix the
>> SqueakMap problem).
>
> Any guess when a new Unix VM will be available for testing with 4.1?
>
> With the current 3.11.3-2135 on FreeBSD 8.0 STABLE I get two errors on
> the command line:
>
> $ squeak Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> pulseaudio: not found
> + exec /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/squeakvm -pathenc UTF-8
> -encoding UTF-8 -plugins /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135
> Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/so.ImmX11Plugin: Undefined symbol
> "setNEncoding"
>
> A ps -x shows pulseaudio running:
> 1403  ??  Is     0:00.16/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start
> --log-target=syslog
>
> Can't say how bad the setNEncoding error is.

> (please remember to change the subject if you change the subject)
>
> On 31.03.2010, at 09:59, Gary Dunn wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 13:59 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> >> Folks -
> >>
> >> I've built a new Windows VM for the upcoming release (mostly to fix the
> >> SqueakMap problem).
> >
> > Any guess when a new Unix VM will be available for testing with 4.1?
> >
> > With the current 3.11.3-2135 on FreeBSD 8.0 STABLE I get two errors on
> > the command line:
> >
> > $ squeak Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> > pulseaudio: not found
> > + exec /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/squeakvm -pathenc UTF-8
> > -encoding UTF-8 -plugins /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135
> > Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> > /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/so.ImmX11Plugin: Undefined symbol
> > "setNEncoding"
> >
> > A ps -x shows pulseaudio running:
> > 1403  ??  Is     0:00.16/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > --log-target=syslog
> >
> > Can't say how bad the setNEncoding error is.
>
> So I guess these are just warnings, apart from them it works?
>
> In the FreeBSD version of the "squeak" script, what is "useoss" set to?
>
> And "pulseaudio --check 2>/dev/null" should actually be silent if not found, or does that work only in bash?
>
> Besides, why can't it execute "pulseaudio" if it's in /usr/local/bin ?
>
> - Bert -

>
>
> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 17:22 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> (please remember to change the subject if you change the subject)
>>
>> On 31.03.2010, at 09:59, Gary Dunn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 13:59 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>> Folks -
>>>>
>>>> I've built a new Windows VM for the upcoming release (mostly to fix the
>>>> SqueakMap problem).
>>>
>>> Any guess when a new Unix VM will be available for testing with 4.1?
>>>
>>> With the current 3.11.3-2135 on FreeBSD 8.0 STABLE I get two errors on
>>> the command line:
>>>
>>> $ squeak Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
>>> pulseaudio: not found
>>> + exec /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/squeakvm -pathenc UTF-8
>>> -encoding UTF-8 -plugins /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135
>>> Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
>>> /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/so.ImmX11Plugin: Undefined symbol
>>> "setNEncoding"
>>>
>>> A ps -x shows pulseaudio running:
>>> 1403  ??  Is     0:00.16/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --start
>>> --log-target=syslog
>>>
>>> Can't say how bad the setNEncoding error is.
>>
>> So I guess these are just warnings, apart from them it works?
>>
>> In the FreeBSD version of the "squeak" script, what is "useoss" set to?
>>
>> And "pulseaudio --check 2>/dev/null" should actually be silent if not found, or does that work only in bash?
>>
>> Besides, why can't it execute "pulseaudio" if it's in /usr/local/bin ?
>>
>> - Bert -
>
> Progress, sort of. The pulseaudio test fails because the shell script
> has
>
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
>
> and FreeBSD has
>
> $ which pulseaudio
> /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio
>
> But fixing the path results in a core dump (stuff in CAPS are my debug
> echos)
>
> $ squeak Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> HAVE PULSEAUDIO
> HAVE PADSP
> MOVE ON
> + exec padsp /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135/squeakvm -pathenc UTF-8
> -encoding UTF-8 -plugins /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135 -vm-sound-oss
> Squeak4.1-9863-alpha.image
> could not find module vm-sound-OSS
> Abort trap (core dumped)
>
> And the lib folder contains
>
> $ ls /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.11.3-2135
> SqueakV39.sources so.PseudoTTYPlugin
> so.AioPlugin so.RomePlugin
> so.B3DAcceleratorPlugin so.Squeak3D
> so.ClipboardExtendedPlugin so.SqueakFFIPrims
> so.DBusPlugin so.UUIDPlugin
> so.FileCopyPlugin so.UnixOSProcessPlugin
> so.GStreamerPlugin so.XDisplayControlPlugin
> so.HostWindowPlugin so.vm-display-X11
> so.ImmX11Plugin so.vm-display-custom
> so.KedamaPlugin so.vm-display-null
> so.KedamaPlugin2 so.vm-sound-NAS
> so.MIDIPlugin so.vm-sound-custom
> so.Mpeg3Plugin so.vm-sound-null
> so.OggPlugin squeakvm
>
>
> My VM is from
>
> http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/
>
> and not the FreeBSD port.
>
> I hope this is useful.

> On 2010-04-06, at 3:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28.03.2010, at 22:59, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1) The VM will now default to pass the window close event to the image instead of handling it directly. You can see that in a current trunk image by clicking on the close button (you'll now get a Squeak notifier instead of the previous VM notifier). The old behavior is still available if you SHIFT-Click on the close button. This is very useful if your image hangs.
>>
>> John,
>>
>> could you change the default for the Mac VM too? Both Linux and Windows VMs now deliver the window event rather than killing the image.
>>
>> For Etoys we use
>>
>> SqueakWindowAttribute <8200001f>
>>
>> in the VM's Info.plist. That at least enables the red window close button (though "Quit" from the dock menu does not work).
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
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