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Brad Fuller wrote:
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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Where does
one dnl the correct Linux distribution?<br>
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When going to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.squeak.org/download/index.html">http://www.squeak.org/download/index.html</a>
I am presented
with two links<br>
<br>
* The "Master Squeak Unix site" at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www-sor.inria.fr/%7Epiumarta/squeak/">http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/</a>
<br>
This site lists 3.6 as the stable release and a version of 3.7 (3.7b-5
-- I guess that means beta version 5).<br>
<br>
and<br>
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* <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7/unix-linux/">ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7/unix-linux/</a><br>
This site contains tars for version 3.7-5989.<br>
(BTW: a tar file that looks like a source of version 3.6 is there
also. don't know why)<br>
<br>
Shouldn't there be one place to dnl? (mirrors are ok as long as they
are identical, these don't appear identical)<br>
<br>
I'm confused. <br>
- Is the *nix 3.7 in beta, stable (released), or "?"<br>
- are the 3.7 files identical at these two sites (the filenames aren't)?<br>
- If 3.7 is the current stable release (it is according to this post at
the swiki: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.388">http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.388</a>),
why doesn't the
Master Squeak Unix Site have this as a stable release?<br>
<br>
Suggestion (and I'm sure this has been discussed before resulting in
good recommendations):<br>
why not provide the 3 platform-independent files for all platform
downloads. That'll make them all consistent. Maybe at the top of the
squeak.org site, there is a link to these 3 files (and the sources file
couldn't be g zipped).<br>
<br>
Then, below this selection, provide the platform dependent file for
each specific OS?<br>
<br>
Maybe the current way was decided because the goal was to make it easy
for windows/mac users? -- but they are just zip/sit files, not
auto-installers. So, I don't see that it's that much convenient.<br>
<br>
If the reason that there are different links for each platform is
because each VM is released at different times, then perhaps change the
process: all final versions (stable release) are not completed until
all VMs are completed.<br>
<br>
<br>
brad<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">PS<br>
I</font></font><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
like RPMs (I'm running FC3 right now), but I'm happy to build if I know
what I'm getting.<br>
As mentioned before, I'm creating audio tools -- but I need them to run
identically on 3 platforms: mac, win and Linux (understanding the
current audio issues with Linux). So, maybe this helps to identify my
particular predicament. Still - it would be nice to see clear
distribution in general.</font></font><br>
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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">So, it
appears that others have the same issue as I do. </font></font><font
size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I see that there
was discussion (and I now remember it - I'm getting old, I suppose)
about the squeak org download page being confusing:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-September/082439.html">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-September/082439.html</a><br>
<br>
But, nothing seems to of come of it, has it?<br>
<br>
It does seem rather important to make squeak easy to understand and
easy to download, doesn't it? Especially for newcomers.<br>
<br>
I'd be happy to lend a hand to clean this up -- though it seems that
this has been discussed and maybe nobody really cared to fix the issue
-- or it was concluded that it wasn't an issue?<br>
<br>
brad<br>
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