The macintosh carbon VM is going into a legacy support state.
Why?
ESUG has provided me with some funds to help build a new 32/64 bit Cocoa (intel/ppc) based Squeak VM, please don't forget to thank them for supporting the community.
Today based on the iPhone VM tree and many more hours of effort I managed to start up a 64 bit intel based Cocoa VM using a 32bit squeak image.
I still have a "bit" more to go in order to get the keyboard logic to correctly mimic the older carbon behaviour, so I won't start public beta testing until the end of the month.
And it only feels like a sea of "warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size" to work thru, but previous efforts by folks like David T Lewis has reduced that to I think
a manageable issue.
If you are interested in alpha testing the VM please email me privately and I'll see if I can get you a workable VM by the end of next week.
The primary project goal is to:
Build a new cocoa based 32/64bit intel/ppc VM with an MIT license, basically from scratch, to enable the ability to use a 32bit image or 64bit image.
Some other objectives:
To build it from scratch using the 4.2.2 VM as a reference
To ensure the xcode project can build both an OSX VM and a iPhone VM.
Port as little code from the past, excluding the Socket and basic file I/O logic.
Other plugins address as needed.
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