What's happened to the "write once, run everywhere" that used to be the 
hallmark of Smalltalk?

On 11.03.2015 21:34, Chris Muller wrote:
> Hi Eliot and all, for this release I wonder whether we should provide
> alternate binary's in the bin directory of the VM to help users manage
> the different image formats.
>
> What if, in addition to bin/squeak, Cog would include bin/cog and Spur
> would include bin/spur.  In that case, although bin/squeak would be
> whoever was installed last, at least users could be explicit about
> which VM they want to launch which image.
>
> I know we also talked about some universal bin/squeak which could id
> the image format and launch the appropriate binary, which would be
> great.
>
> We should plan on doing _something_ in this area for the release.
>
>
>
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