Forwarding from squeak-dev, this is a concise summary of open VM issues
that affect the Cobalt project.
For the standard unix and windows VM's, I think that a fresh build is probably
all that is required. The MpegPlugin fix for unix is in place but did not make
it in time for the last build, and windows probably just needs a VMMaker update
and build.
I'm less certain as to what may be required for Mac and Cog VMs, although
refreshing the windows and unix VM's would probably be a big help for
Cobalt developers.
Dave
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:30:04 -0400
From: Matthew Fulmer <
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Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Separate TeaTime (was Re: Re: Teleplace is hiring...)
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:23:57AM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> On 3/17/2011 10:59, Lawson English wrote:
> > The biggest holdup for getting these things into the Squeak trunk is
> > simply getting Cobalt itself into the Squeak trunk so it can run on VM
> > 4.2. If anyone wants to help Matt with THAT project, I'm pretty sure he
> > will be happy for the assist.
>
> What do you need help with?
The holdup is the VM's actually:
- Recent Cog VM's crash on startup from OpenGL/FFI
- Windows interpreter VM crashes on startup from JPEGPlugin
- Unix interpreter VM has broken MPEGPlugin
- Mac VM hasn't been extensively tested; John's latest may work,
but Esteban's is missing plugins
Old Cog VM's (2316) almost work, but:
- Windows VM is missing SoundPlugin
- At least on windows, the router sockets timeout after they've
been running for 30 minutes or so
There is very little that needs doing image-side; I've already
done that part. Since we have a zero-regression policy for the
official Cobalt releases, we can't release until we have working
VM's. None of us are VM devs, and we have plenty to work on
while we wait, so we're just waiting for the VM guys right now.
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Matthew Fulmer (a.k.a. Tapple)
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