+1<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Klaus D. Witzel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klaus.witzel@cobss.com">klaus.witzel@cobss.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:17 +0100, Ken Causey wrote:<br>
<br>
Ken, this your explanation is very insightful and *very* informative, may I vote for adding it to<br>
<br>
- <a href="http://www.squeak.org/Download/" target="_blank">http://www.squeak.org/Download/</a><br>
<br>
between the sections "Virtual Machine" and "Image file".<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance, and of course for the good wording.<br>
<br>
/Klaus<br>
<br>
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... Squeak is fundamentally made up of two<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
parts: the Virtual Machine and the Image. We'll ignore the source code<br>
aspects for now which are of course 2 other files. The development of<br>
the two main pieces occurs in parallel certainly, but somewhat<br>
separately. The result of this is that in effect at all times there are<br>
two pieces with slightly different version numbers that are both<br>
current.<br>
<br>
As Mariano mentioned the usual site to find the very latest Unix VM is<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/" target="_blank">http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/</a><br>
<br>
Where you will currently find a 3.10-4 version. The basis for this<br>
version number is fundamentally the major version of the image used to<br>
generate it, and a minor version number as new VM releases are issued<br>
between major image releases. This is not completely consistent across<br>
platforms so you will see variations in version numbers for Mac and<br>
Windows and other platforms for the VM. By and large the VM changes<br>
slowly and there is rarely a need for most people to update it very<br>
often.<br>
<br>
The Image is the primary element most people are interested in and where<br>
most change occurs. This part is cross platform and the same image can<br>
be used with any reasonably modern VM. The most recent release is<br>
3.10.2-7179 and in general one can find it at<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ftp.squeak.org/current_stable/" target="_blank">http://ftp.squeak.org/current_stable/</a><br>
<br>
Of course in practice the obvious thing to do when looking for the<br>
latest release is to go to<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.squeak.org/" target="_blank">http://www.squeak.org/</a><br>
<br>
where you might find the Download link in the menu to the left or<br>
perhaps the Downloads box at the right. For Unix the box on the right<br>
simply points to the Download page. On the Download page you find a<br>
number of links within sections for each platform for the VM and<br>
sections for the Image and Sources.<br>
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