On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Luke Gorrie <l...@snabb.co> wrote: > On 15 April 2017 at 14:45, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> this belongs to pharo-dev, please continue there :) > > > Looks to me like I should make a small replacement for mvm that is for nix. > > Nix indeed does its own thing. > > The downside is that it's restricted: the build runs in a sandbox, can't > touch the network, has to declare the sha256 of any dependencies that it > needs. Nothing - not one byte - is allowed to change from one build to the > next without being accounted for and that breaks the mvm script. > > On the plus side it will supply all of the dependencies, with exactly the > expected version and exactly the expected build options, so that is less > work for mvm to do i.e. the third-party stuff should be taken care of > automatically. > > I'm taking a poke now. > > However, I must remind myself that this is a distraction, since I am trying > to get a _stable_ VM for Pharo 5.0. Somehow I have been swept up in this > enthusiasm for building the bleeding edge Pharo 6.0 VM that is not actually > of any practical use to me :-) although it will be in the near future.
I'm not sure if this provides a stable option for VM for Pharo 5, but with latest Pharo 5 image, build 50771 (2017-04-02) and recent VM Unix built 201703031554 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git TestRunner reports... 13696 run, 13640 passes, 17 skipped, 52 expected failures, 4 failures, 0 errors, 0 unexpected passes Failures: ReleaseTest>>#testUnpackagedClasses ReleaseTest>>#testObsoleteClasses ReleaseTest>>#testMethodsWithUnboundGlobals FileHandleTest(FileSystemHandleTest)>>#testTruncate cheers -ben
