On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:24:50PM +0000, Lex Spoon wrote:
> silence-squeak at nilpotent.org (Faried Nawaz) wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The INRIA site has 2.8pre3 -- is that the latest VM for Unix?  I keep seeing
> > references to 2.8p4 and 2.8p5 but they're neither at the INRIA ftp site nor
> > at UIUC.
> > 
> 
> I think I have 2.8pre5, though the only tar file I immediately find is
> 2.8pre4.  I remember it taking some hunting to find, and unfortunately I
> don't remember the details now.  Maybe it was on the ftp site, and not
> the web site?  Currently ftp.inria.fr seems to be down, so I can't
> check.  If you get in, look for "INRIA", "Projects", "SOR", "People",
> and "Piumarta", though not necessarily in that order.
> 
> Was 2.8 ever officially released?  Maybe Ian thinks that 2.7 is the
> current release, and that's why finding the 2.8 sources is so difficult.
>  If 2.8 has been released, someone should email Ian.  If it hasn't... 
> how about we release it?
> 
> 
> -Lex
> 

Hi Lex 
 For your info the URL for 2.8pre5 source file is:
           http://www-sor.inria.fr/squeak/Jitter-3.1/

When I compiled this code I had to comment out in the Makefile all the 
references to the MAC build, otherwise it compiled smoothly on my system.

John