[squeak-dev] Re: Unix updates

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Dec 16 10:58:13 UTC 2009


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 16.12.2009, at 09:23, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Question for the Unix folks: If we know that what you get via package install is most likely very old, would it make sense to check inside Squeak whether a new version is available? I.e., just a simple
>>
>> (HTTPSocket httpGet: 'http://www.squeak.org/current_version') = SystemVersion current ifFalse:[self inform: 'A new version of Squeak has become available. Would you like to install it now?'].
>>
>> might help get people more accustomed with later developments. Would that be a sensible thing to do?
> 
> It would be highly unusual in Linux, where version management and updates are provided by the system rather than by individual packages.

Never mind then ;-)

> Also, we'd have to state to how to actually get the new version. Which there are a ton of possibilities for, depending on how you got Squeak in the first place.

Fire up a web browser pointing at 
http://www.squeak.org/download/linux#distro

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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