On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 07:00:30PM -0400, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> On 2014-06-17 6:56 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > Generating VM builds for general distribution on build.squeak.org is a Really
> > Bad Idea. Please do not do that.
> 
> Can you expand on this, please? Why is it such a Very Bad Idea?
> 

The authors and maintainers of the VMs for various platforms put a lot
of time and effort into producing reliable products, and in trying to do
so in such a way that they have some reasonable chance of answering questions
when things do not work. Setting up a random bunch of undocumented and unsupported
variations on those VMs makes life difficult for the people who are creating
and supporting them, and especially so if those undocumented distributions
are being served from a site that has "squeak.org" in its name.

It's great to experiment, but let's have some consideration for the authors
and maintainers of the VMs, and let's be careful that the things that we
present to the world on squeak.org have real credibility and the best possible
support.

Dave