[Vm-dev] Regroup pharo ARMv6 builds (was: 324996: Add a main build stage for Squeak and Pharo)

[tim Rowledge]

> On 02-04-2018, at 10:59 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The version information tells you which heartbeat it uses:

Yeah, so 'my' version is indeed threaded (good grief it's been a long time since I looked at the code in sqUnixMain.c!) and the most recent ARMv6 vm from bintray *also* says it's threaded-timer; despite the package being labelled as squeak.cog.spur_linux32ARMv6_itimer_201804030952.tar.gz

So, something small but potentially very confusing is wrong in the package building scripts.

And I can't help thinking that making the information we get in the About Squeak window for 'VM General' match (as closely as possible) the results of `--version` would be helpful. It would be simple enough to re-organise the About report so long as we can get the 'BuildVariant' and 'HBID' etc values into the relevant getAttribute code. While I'm thinking about it, the version output is pretty densely packed and difficult to human-read - is anyone wedded to the precise output format for parsing with scripts etc? Would making it a bit more eye-friendly cause problems?

tim
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