[BUG] Smalltalk vmVersion isNil and prevents me to mail outthisbugreport automatically... ;-)

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Sat Apr 7 07:02:40 UTC 2001


> Doesn't this sort of point to a bigger problem, that 
> "Smalltalk vmVersion" is currently useless on non-Mac platforms?

Absolutely not. But the name might be wrong (it should probably be called
#interpreterVersion). It's heavily useful to (for instance) find out if the
VM you are running does include certain generic features (such as proper
unwind support which was added in an update a while ago). That's what got me
originally into adding the support for it - we had some trouble across
Win/Mac and then the platform specific version information was just
completely and absolutely useless (e.g., try to answer the question if, say,
the Mac VM 3.1Alpha10 does include update 3742 or not).

  - Andreas





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