Hi Benoît,

+1

I do some development on windows and copy the image to a Raspberry Pi running Linux.  I can't
test everything as my windows box doesn't have the GPIO pins of the Raspberry but that is to be
expected.

Lou


On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:53:37 +0530, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 11 April 2018 03:45 AM, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev wrote:
>> I was wondering if images for different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows) 
>> and VMs (32bit, 64bit) are, code-wise, the same?  By "the same", I mean 
>> do they all have the exact same code base or some classes/methods are in 
>> some and not in others or different?
>
>Short answer - Images yes, VMs no.
>
>"Squeak" without qualification refers to the image. The official release 
>contains separate VMs for different platforms but only a single image.
>
>Squeak VM is different for each platform, but they do share the source 
>code for bytecode interpreter, primitives and object manager and some 
>(algorithmic) plugins. The launcher and device-based plugins (e.g. 
>display) are host-specific.
>
>Generally, you should be able to save your image on Windows and resume 
>it on a Linux or Mac without any issues. There may be minor irritants 
>like differently configured CTRL/ALT/CMD keys or fonts but the overall 
>experience is stunningly smooth.
>
>HTH .. Subbu
>
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