[Cuis] cuis on pda

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Casey,

Casey Ransberger wrote:
> Yo debo aprender a construir la VM. Nunca he hecho, en parte porque la 
> documentación parece obsoleta, y en parte porque soy vago.

Wow! Your Spanish is great!

> I don't know how to say this in Spanish: (help?) I worry about losing 
> compatibility with VMMaker, so I'd love to see folks making VMs with 
> Cuis on a regular basis.

It would be something like "Me preocupa el perder compatibilidad con 
VMMake, por lo que me encantaría ver gente construyendo VMs con Cuis a 
menudo.

> Tal vez le daré un tiro y documento el proceso.
>
> Si terminas rodando un cierre habilitado VM para WinCE, por favor 
> comparta sus resultados con la lista de VM-dev, como pueden haber 
> otras personas que se beneficiarían de sus resultados.
>
> --Casey
>
> P.S.
>
> Por favor perdona a mi español, como soy un donut de jalea.

It was very funny, Casey! I'll restate a bit in English too, for folks 
without your great Spanish skills. Casey says he might try to run 
VMMaker in Cuis, to build a VM, and document the process. He also asks 
anybody working on a WinCE VM to share the results.

WRT VMMaker (the same goes for any other package), usually most 
compatibility issues are in the UI. But building UIs from code in Cuis 
is easier than in Squeak, so porting the code is not hard. If any 
compatibility issues require some change in Cuis I promise I'll help.

Something else. I almost never build VMs, but I do build external 
plugins from time to time. Something I don't like about VMMaker is that 
it is monolithic. Building plugins requires a lot less than building the 
full VM. I've been playing a bit on breaking VMMaker-eem.163.mcz (1.5mb) 
in parts. The result is PluginMaker (420kb), StandardPlugins (620kb) and 
VMMaker (530kb). PluginMaker works in latest Cuis and can build plugins.

I think the best would be to break the official VMMaker like this, solve 
compatibility issues, and be able to use any of these in Cuis, without 
forking code. I currently don't have much spare time to spend on this, 
but you Casey, or anybody else willing to work on this will have my full 
support and any help I can provide.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich