My experiences in downloading Squeak

Squeaker squeakman at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 17:38:56 UTC 2007


Greetings,

I have been in a bit of a black hole over the past few days in 
attempting to get a version of Squeak 3.9 downloaded.  I thought it may 
be helpful to list what I did so here goes:

1. Downloaded Squeak 3.9 (web) from here: 
http://squeak.ofset.org/squeak-web/

2. Did the following test on the downloaded image: "1 break". What I was 
expecting when I did this is a Debugger but instead I got a "Syntax 
Error" window with a bunch of meaningless text in the window (at least 
to me it was meaningless).

3. Downloaded Squeak 3.9 (dev) from here:
http://squeak.ofset.org/squeak-dev/

4. Execute "1 break" and got the same "Syntax Error" window.

5. Downloaded Squeak 3.9 from here: http://www.squeak.org/Download

6. Execute : "1 break" and I got the normal debugger that I expected.

What I conclude from this is that there may be something wrong with the 
download images at step 1 and 3 above.

My goal was to have an image with Squeak and Seaside and that is what I 
think  the link at steps 1 and step 3 offers but I suspect something is 
not right - at least it did not work for me - and I can reproduce the 
behaviour.

Eventually I downloaded the "One Click" image from here 
http://www.seaside.st/download/squeak
and everything works as I expected.

If there is something wrong with the images at 
http://squeak.ofset.org/squeak-web/ I hope that it can be fixed because 
an image with seaside, pier and magritte is exactly what I was looking for.


Cheers,
Frank




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