[Webteam] yet some more squeak site, ftp work for macintosh binary support

Karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Mon Sep 17 17:08:19 UTC 2007


John M McIntosh wrote:
> I had some feedback from a new squeak user over the weekend, so in
> ftp://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/mac
>
> we don't have a separate   Squeak 3.8.18beta1U.app.zip
> which forces people to download the entire bundle (VM/image/changes) 
> from Squeak3.9-7067mac vm 3.8.18beta1U.zip just to update their VM.
> if we could add a Squeak 3.8.18beta1U.app.zip  that would be helpful.
>
> The macintosh os-9 user also point out the link on this web page for 
> os-7.5 to os 9.2 users (They seem to still exist)
>
> http://www.squeak.org/Download
> *MacOS 7.5.5 to 9.2*
>
> points to 
> http://ftp.squeak.org/current_stable/mac/Squeak%203.8.9beta7.app.zip
> however being a zip file means it's actually unusable on OS-9.
>
> Therefore could we change the link and point to
>
>          Squeak 3.8.9beta7.app.sit
>
> which is a *.SIT file and provides a workable result on OS-9 after 
> unzipping.
>
> The two files Squeak 3.8.18beta1U.app.zip and  Squeak 
> 3.8.9beta7.app.sit can be retrieved from
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html
I´ll fix that John.
Karl


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