My experiences in downloading Squeak

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 12:08:24 UTC 2007


I can't reproduce that on my Linux computer.

2007/12/16, Squeaker <squeakman at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
>
>


-- 
Damien Cassou



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