How does updating work?

Jesse Welton jwelton at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Tue Nov 26 23:39:58 UTC 2002


Brian T Rice wrote:
> 
> Wow, you're still running that? :)
> 
> Squeak's major version numbers denote image format changes, so you could
> only use the updates mechanism through 2.9, assuming that the VM held up.

There was no image format change from 2.9 to 3.0, so that shouldn't
cause any problems in the update sequence.  However, you are very
likely to run into trouble well before you get from 2.2 to 2.9.  IIRC,
somewhere in there was a nasty little problem with the changes file
getting too large, and the file primitives being unable to cope.

-Jesse



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