A squeak3.4 VM will be needed
Julian Fitzell
julian at beta4.com
Sun Jan 19 21:31:47 UTC 2003
Doug Way wrote:
>
> 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.
Indeed. And you don't usually run "java-x.y.z"; you run "java". And if
you want to know the version you run "java --version".
Julian
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