A squeak3.4 VM will be needed

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Sun Jan 19 17:15:10 UTC 2003


On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 07:48 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
> The latter is partly why I like naming the VM just "Squeak.exe" for all 
> but
> the most experienced Squeakers. It encourages them to think about the 
> VM as
> "essentially the same" across all versions (which is true - you can run
> everything back to Squeak 1.1 on the latest VMs) and (for the largest 
> part)
> not to worry about "uh... now this is Squeak 3.4 VM ... will this work 
> if I
> try to start Squeak3.2.image with it???"

True, that sounds reasonable.  It's definitely better to bundle the VM 
with no version number than to have the wrong version number.

- Doug Way



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