DSA changes open for comment

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Wed May 31 20:59:33 UTC 2000


JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
> 
> => 5/31/00 4:11:18 PM EDT, arning at charm.net =>
> << It was not my impresssion that any of the regularly available VMs
> currently have the LargeIntegers plugin internally, although that is
> certainly a possibility with the new plugin architecture.  >>
> 
> Bob,
> 
> What is a 'regularly available VM'?

Currently VM2.7, because it 
- is official, and
- should be similar in functionality for all platforms.

> 
> The latest have been posted to
>     ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/2.7/files/SqueakExe.zip
> for Windows and
>     ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/Squeak_VM_2.8-NOT.sea.bin
> (though I haven't personally tested this one -- the VM~2.8).

I think most people update their VMs, if there is a official (not alpha)
version number change.
Currently we are staying at VM2.7.

Is this true or may I be wrong here?

Stephan

> 
> These have the LargeIntegers code in them, without a plugin.
> 
> Bruce has been doing an incredible job keeping the archive up to date. Dan
> added the Mac version to 2.8 folder.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jerry
> ____________________________
> 
> Jerry L. Archibald
> systemObjectivesIncorporated
> ____________________________

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Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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