About names of VM in mac and pc

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Sep 18 07:18:46 UTC 2003


Hi john

Now I'm confused: what is the 3.6g VM that brain reported in the  
previous email. I would like to know
which full distribution to have cool icon for my book.

Stef

On Mercredi, sep 17, 2003, at 22:37 Europe/Zurich, John M McIntosh  
wrote:

> Well the carbon mac VM is for example Squeak VM 3.5.2b1 which means  
> usually a 3.5 series VM, with perhaps enhancements found in the mac  
> source tree at the rev 2 version and beta 1.  Usually I send beta 1,  
> 2, ...  out for pre-trials to interested folks, then once I've fixed  
> any forgotten details you might have 3.5.0b4 as an example as  
> something everyone uses.  Also I've rev the beta numbers for mac  
> specific VM fixes when required.
>
>
> I'll note enhancements to the VM sneak into the Mac VM because  
> sometimes they are powerpc performance specific or as an example  
> (global structures) where it takes years/months for them to creep into  
> the base image.
>
> Right now the current VM should be build-able from the sourceforge  
> source tree. What is really required is work on the CVS part to enable  
> me and other VM folks I'd guess the ability to tag source to indicate  
> what for example really went into the 3.4.0b4 VM. I
> do have source trees for most of that on my office machines in case  
> anyone say a 3.2.6 source tree for the mac VM.
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:24  PM, ducasse wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm looking at the last figures that I will have to update for 3.6 in  
>> my book. I noticed that when we look at the names the vm have in mac  
>> and in pc we got different schema
>>
>> 	on pc I have squeak on mac squeak3.2b4
>>
>> So what there is a difference?
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>>
>>
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