[squeak-dev] Re: Release packaging

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 17:25:39 UTC 2011


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>
>  Yes, unzip.
>>
>> You do not need to rename the file. croquet.exe. Just double click and
>> then it looks for the image file and launches it.
>>
>> But I think you cannot go back to squeak.exe after you have started
>> and saved the image with croquet.exe. (Others please correct me)
>>
>
> Squeak images saved by the CogVM will have a new image format. The current
> release (4.1.1) of SqueakVM for windows can't read such images. I built a VM
> which can be used to convert your images back to the old formatl. It's
> available here:
> http://leves.web.elte.hu/squeak/SqueakVM-Win32-4.4.9-2358-non-official-bin.zip


Have these changes been folded back into VMMaker trunk?

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> Levente
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>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 4/29/11, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you mean extract cogwin.zip into the Squeak-All-In-One folder and then
>>> rename croquet.exe to squeak.exe ?
>>>
>>> Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> To have Squeak with Cog I replaced the old Squeak VM with a Cog one
>>>> from http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/ (MSWindows)
>>>>
>>>> --Hannes
>>>>
>>>> On 4/29/11, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree. Does this imply that two all-in-one packages are needed, a
>>>>>> Cog and an non-cog?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Hannes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/28/11, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since this isn't the first time people do benchmarks, but don't
>>>>>>> download
>>>>>>> VMs independently, therefore I think we have to package VMs with the
>>>>>>> releases in the future. IIRC someone even concluded that Pharo is
>>>>>>> faster
>>>>>>> than Squeak, but he just used what he got from the website (Cog for
>>>>>>> Pharo
>>>>>>> and the interpreter vm for Squeak).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Levente
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> Is the difference between a Cog and non-Cog VM just the a different exe
>>>>> (for windows)?
>>>>> How compatible are the images for Cog and non-Cog?
>>>>> Could two executables be included in a single All-In-One package - ie
>>>>> named like SqueakClassic.exe & SqueakCog.exe ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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