[squeak-dev] A 1 million bucks question :)

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed Dec 16 07:56:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Frank Shearar wrote:

> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> Just to let you know,
>> 
>> i found that 
>> http://squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-3.11.3.2135-linux_i386.sh
>> works just well out of the box on my freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 -
>> 32bit system.
>
> Or, if you like Squeak 3.9 (and are running Ubuntu 9.10), "apt-get install 
> squeak". Which of course is a neat illustration of what Ken spoke of earlier: 
> the version in the package often lags behind the most recent version.

IIRC that version is built without the gnuify script, therefore it's 50% 
slower than a "normal" vm.


Levente

>
> It's not an uncommon problem: Steel Bank Common Lisp's Ubuntu port installs 
> SBCL 1.0.29 when the latest version is 1.0.33, for instance.
>
> frank
>
>



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