Unix 2.8/2.9a

Rick Zaccone zaccone at bucknell.edu
Sat Aug 26 09:41:39 UTC 2000


>If you look here:
>
>  ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/SOR/users/piumarta/squeak/
>
>you will find the second PRE-release of 2.8 for Unix:
>
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-img.tar	- Dan's 2.8 image from earlier this week
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-src.tar	- sources
>
>plus the usual:
>
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e.tar
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar
>  Squeak-2.8pre2-sparc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar

OK, now I'm confused.  Why are these pre-releases when there appears
to be final releases on st.cs.uiuc.edu?  For example:

<ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/
Squeak2.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar.gz>

Rick Zaccone





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