Re: The Trunk: System-dtl.1233.mcz
Posted by
Chris Muller-4 on
May 19, 2021; 2:22am
URL: https://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-System-dtl-1233-mcz-tp5129717p5129843.html
And as explained in the commit comment:
Skip chunks that begin with known extensions that are not meaningful
for Squeak, logging to Transcript to show chunks that have been ignored.
Magma implements a method called #classDefinition:. I wanted to make sure this wouldn't cause it to get skipped. My test of filing out a single method and also the whole class, seemed to work okay.
With respect to the Cuis reference, my use case was installing
VectorEnginePlugin in Squeak. The upstream repository for this plugin
is on GitHub, which stores the portable Smalltalk code in chunk format
with some Cuis extensions:
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/Packages/Features/VectorEnginePlugin.pck.st
The plugin code is well-written and portable for at least Squeak and Cuis.
The Cuis-specific chunks are not relevant to Squeak, so they can and
should be ignored when filing in to Squeak.
Does this mean we can generally load Cuis code into Squeak now? That almost seems [ANN]-worthy. :)
- Chris