> On 24-06-2016, at 1:38 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>> 
{lots of snippy}
> 
> Thanks for chiming in.  The matter is more about to write shell script
> that can find the latest VM when multiple ones are installed.  My
> first attempt was to search in /usr/lib/squeak, sort entries and pick
> the one with the biggest number (which used to be the svn revision
> number).  I'm thinking to add two step detection; if the scheme that
> is based on the yyyymmdd format does not turn up a VM, we then search
> the older style version-revision VM in /usr/lib/squeak.

Well the good news is that we can (since this is a shell script aimed at the Pi install of nuScratch) be a bit less general and assuming that from now on vm versions are indeed MAJOR.MINOR-DATETIME format then we need only handle those. The script will go into the next Pi release and need not concern itself with dealing with older VMs.

tim
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