[squeak-dev] squeak.org now running on CogSpur

Chris Cunnington brasspen at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 23:48:05 UTC 2014


On Jun 25, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Levente, Hi Chris,
> 
> 
>     I've just uploaded new VMs to http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3018/.  As far as I can tell these VMs address all the earlier problems people were seeing with Spur on linux.  Perhaps it's worth another try?

Sounds like fun to me. I'm always content to set the controls to the heart of the sun. But as he's Box Team leader, I'd say say this is up to Levente. 

Chris  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirZFmRwXvE&feature=kp



> - the crash when running SUnit tests was an issue to do with the XDisplayControlPlugin not being correctly linked against the vm-display-X11 shared object.  this is now fixed.
> - there were issues to do with the SSL plugin not being correctly linked.  this is now fixed.
> - there could be issues to do with memory growth unmapping memory in the malloc arenas.  this is now fixed.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> 
> I had a request to make a change to squeak.org yesterday. I've made it. The Wiki link now goes directly to the Squeak wiki homepage.
> Our homepage now runs on CogSpur (cogspurlinuxht-14.23.2987.tgz). In the process I've committed some sins against the tools of Daniel J. Bernstein, which I'll fix on Monday.
> 
> That's a nice idea, but the code is alpha (not for production), and there are multiple reproducible ways to crash the vm.
> 
> i've seen the homepage crash for worse reasons. You're the box team leader. Do you want me to switch it back? If you want, I'll change it back.
> 
> We should look forward, not backwards. Yes, I think it would be better to use stable VMs on the servers.
> 
> Levente
> 
> Chris
> 
> Levente
> 
> Have a nice weekend,
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> best,
> Eliot

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