Unix 3.2g/3.3a "alpha" release available

Ian Piumarta ian.piumarta at inria.fr
Wed Jun 5 06:48:58 UTC 2002


Folks,

An "alpha" release of 3.2g/3.3a for Unix is available, sadly as source
only until I implement the binary distribution stuff later today:

    http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/unix/3.3-devel

(with a tarball in: dist/3.3-devel-20020605.tgz).

Note that the 3.3a and 3.2g VMs are _identical_ (according to `diff
-r') so everything should work regardless of which image is being
used.  (The above "src" tree was generated out of 3.3a-4881.  The only
differences to 3.2g were the time/date comments in the files and the
interpreterVersion string.)

Since the "wizards only" release:

- all plugins build and (appear to) work (including MPEG and JPEG R/W 2)

- building all plugins internal/external works (thanks to Dave Lewis for
  spotting this)

- `make install' (and `make uninstall') are implemented

- there is copious documentation on the build process in:

      platforms/unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.html/

When binary distributions are implemented, built and availlable I'll
post a longer message detailing the substantive changes since 3.1.

Note also that to build all plugins external and then test the VM
before installing it's necessary to tell the VM where to find the
(non-installed) plugins.  Something like this:

	bld/squeak -plugins bld/%n/.libs

will point it in the right direction.

Bug reports, comments, questions, etc. welcome.  (Especially bug reports.)

Enjoy!

Ian




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