[squeak-dev] [ANN] Changing the Trunk version from 6.0alpha to 5.2alpha

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Wed May 30 17:50:58 UTC 2018


On Mon, 28 May 2018, Tobias Pape wrote:

>
>> On 28.05.2018, at 00:50, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, the pre-release VM has the bug described in issue #260: https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/260 .>
>>> 
>>> Yea, i haven't had the time to fix that one.
>>> It's actually a plugin not the vm per se…
>> 
>> ... IMO, it's a non-starter to include a newer VM in 5.2 release if it
>> means this plugin will be broken.
>
>
> No, It means that the plugin (apparently, I have not reproduced) 
> - cannot be built on ubuntu 14.04 
> - cannot be use on 14.04 with the plugin from travis.

The same thing happens on Debian 8.

Levente

>
> Although being an LTS, 14.04 is four years old (and goes out of maitenance in a year…)
>
> its a special config, debians around that time still used 0.9-whatever.
> I think its a fix that takes around 2 hours, +/- time for settiung up the OS.
> I don't have those 2 hours atm.
>
>
> Most users will be fine…
>
> 	-t


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