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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:17 +0100, Ken Causey wrote:
>
> Ken, this your explanation is very insightful and *very* informative, may I
> vote for adding it to
>
> - http://www.squeak.org/Download/
>
> between the sections "Virtual Machine" and "Image file".
>
> Thank you in advance, and of course for the good wording.
>
> /Klaus
>
>  ... Squeak is fundamentally made up of two
>>
>> parts: the Virtual Machine and the Image.  We'll ignore the source code
>> aspects for now which are of course 2 other files.  The development of
>> the two main pieces occurs in parallel certainly, but somewhat
>> separately.  The result of this is that in effect at all times there are
>> two pieces with slightly different version numbers that are both
>> current.
>>
>> As Mariano mentioned the usual site to find the very latest Unix VM is
>>
>> http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/
>>
>> Where you will currently find a 3.10-4 version.  The basis for this
>> version number is fundamentally the major version of the image used to
>> generate it, and a minor version number as new VM releases are issued
>> between major image releases.  This is not completely consistent across
>> platforms so you will see variations in version numbers for Mac and
>> Windows and other platforms for the VM.  By and large the VM changes
>> slowly and there is rarely a need for most people to update it very
>> often.
>>
>> The Image is the primary element most people are interested in and where
>> most change occurs.  This part is cross platform and the same image can
>> be used with any reasonably modern VM.  The most recent release is
>> 3.10.2-7179 and in general one can find it at
>>
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/current_stable/
>>
>> Of course in practice the obvious thing to do when looking for the
>> latest release is to go to
>>
>> http://www.squeak.org/
>>
>> where you might find the Download link in the menu to the left or
>> perhaps the Downloads box at the right.  For Unix the box on the right
>> simply points to the Download page.  On the Download page you find a
>> number of links within sections for each platform for the VM and
>> sections for the Image and Sources.
>>
> ...
>
> --
> "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it". Albert
> Einstein
>
>
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