[squeak-dev] new VM directory structure for 5.3

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 22:23:29 UTC 2020


Squeak 5.3 is released with a new Linux directory structure in 5.3.  In 5.2
and before, it was

    /usr/local/bin/squeak
    /usr/local/lib/squeak/Squeak-5.0-1234/[*.so, *.sources]

now, like the good old days when software was easy to run, it's simply one
directory with the executable stuff

   ./Squeak5.3beta-19316-64bit-201912311458-Linux/bin/[squeak, *.so,
*.sources]

along with one directory for the data stuff (images)

    ./Squeak5.3beta-19316-64bit-201912311458-Linux/shared/

This simplification allows easy co-existence of 32-bit with 64-bit versions
of the same VM.

The SqueakV50.sources file must be present in at least one of those two
directories.

Very nice.
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