Which Squeak is preferred for Mac OS X ?

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Sun Sep 30 23:13:33 UTC 2001


This reminds me that the OS X information on the squeak.org download
page is a little out of date... it doesn't mention anything about the
Carbon version.  Perhaps the text could be updated to point to the
3.0/mac directory of the ftp site to find the current Carbon/Cocoa VM's
rather than hardcoding a link to an old VM.

While I was thinking about this, I updated the DownloadForMacintosh
swiki page with some info on OS X downloads.

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com


Doug Way wrote:
> 
> For most everyday use, I'd say the Carbon version is the one to use.  Pretty much everything seems to work as far as I've tried, and it's better than the Classic version (when using OS X) since you don't have to start up the Classic environment, etc.
> 
> The Cocoa version is promising, but last I checked it still has a serious problem with events and/or screen updates, which makes the UI feel quite slow.  Plus there are still a few missing features e.g. full screen mode.  Eventually these things will be addressed, I'm guessing.
> 
> (I personally switched back to using Squeak on OS 9, solely because there wasn't 3-button mouse support available on OS X.  Although I believe Marcel was adding support for this to the Cocoa version.)
> 
> - Doug Way
>   dway at riskmetrics.com
> 
> Andy Stoffel wrote:
> >
> > [I couldn't find this information anywhere (mailing list or minnow)]
> >
> > If I understand it correctly there seem to be several different
> > versions:
> >
> > - Carbon
> > - Cocoa
> > - Classic
> >
> > Is there a preferred version (I've only played with
> > the Cocoa version so far) ? And a list of
> > which one has what (if any ) feature running under Mac OS X ?
> > [eg. I've noticed full screen doesn't seem to work in the
> >  Cocoa version - is anything else not working in it?]
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Andy-




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