Mark Wai wrote:
I just noticed that in the new distribution of Squeak V2.2, it carries an extra .ini file. Is there anything that we need to care about or know about? I don't find any mentioning of this new .ini in the readme file.
So far as I know, the squeak.ini file is specific to the Win32 VMs -- the VMs create it automatically to save the VM preferences (basically things that are being handled external of the image).
Also, I don't see the jitter anywhere. Is it recommended to use V2.1 Jitter VM on V2.2 image?
Just running Squeak and browsing around should be OK, but I wouldn't recommend doing any serious development using it (and I wouldn't do any updates using it) -- there is a bug in its cacheing of class structure such that redefining a class with a number of subclasses can cause it to crash. [Ian Piumarta is using his time to create a totally new JitterII (which should give a much more substantial performance increase than Jitter did) instead of chasing this problem.]
-- Dwight