Ben Coman

Be explicit about which test image version - move to CI config [HOLD]

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First try to see what Travis thinks about these changes.

Simplify gitignore build directories [skip ci]

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I noticed that modified Makefiles weren't being pickup up by `git status`. It was too tedious trying to fix the existing definitions, so I've condensed them down to 4 lines...

minheadless sqWin32Common.c

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Questions arising from general review and familiarization with minheadless... [platforms/minheadless/windows/sqWin32Common.c](https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/1d97d79/platforms/minheadless/windows/sqWin32Common.c) defines functions... ``` fromSqueakInto() fromSqueak() fromSqueak2() sqWin32PrintLastError() ``` The first three don't seem to be used from Windows... ``` $...

Improve vm clock

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When the in-Image Delay scheduling code used a millisecond clock that rolled over every six days, it required a backward moving clock to be handled by adjusting resumption times. With...

High Performance AsyncIO - kqueue/epoll/IOCP

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I happened across commit 3664 [1] which indicates epoll and kqueue support is planned. The core devs probably already know what they want to do, but I got curious to...

It would be super cool to have an example where an app on Windows gets some sort of framebuffer resource, and passes that and keyboard/mouse events through to the Linux...

Proposal - subsection Duck Typing

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Following on from my response here... http://forum.world.st/Question-tp4939264p4939265.html I propose a small subsection "Duck Typing" with an example like below. I don't see anywhere in PBE that this equivalence is explained......

$ make book-result/welcome.html ==>make: *** No rule to make target 'book-result/welcome.html'. Stop. but... $ make welcome produces file ./build/welcome.html

scriptless save/restore - prerequisite for Drawing Tool

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For a long time I've been interested adapting Roassal to be a vector drawing tool like Visio or yEd. Years ago I started doing this to Roassal2, but the stumbling...

Launcher needs an update available notification

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As a prelude to #3, it would be good to notify users of available updates. Even if they must take manual action to install it, it encourages users towards a...