On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Giovanni Corriga <giovanni at corriga.net> wrote:
> Andreas Raab ha scritto:
>>
>> Giovanni Corriga wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not talking about mantaining, I'm talking about releasing. Squeak is
>>> the only system that I know of where the VM/interpreter is not released at
>>> the same time as "the runtime". We should try and have new VMs released when
>>> we release the new image, if only to make things more understandable for the
>>> beginners.
>>
>> Can you explain what exactly you mean by "more understandable for
>> beginners"? The current situation is such that we have updated 3.10 VMs
>> available at http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/ which (outside of John's naming
>> scheme) reflect the 3.10 heritage accurately. These VMs were available in
>> alpha and beta versions earlier and are now available alongside the
>> appropriate image release. What's not to understand about that?
>>
>
> At the moment, the current version of the Windows vm is 3.10.6 . If I where
> a newbie, I would expect to have a 3.10.6 image too, to use with that vm.

maybe we just need to make it clearer that version numbers are
different for vm's and images.
Or, convert the version numbers to a word (like "leopard") and use
that for the complete package of image and vm that's released (at a
major releases)