[squeak-dev] Cog binary + cogdeb.zip = Cog.deb

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Jun 18 03:04:32 UTC 2014


On 06/17/2014 07:19 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Those are good points.

Tony


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