3.7-FULL bundled with old Windows VM

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Sep 24 00:59:39 UTC 2004


Hi Bruce,

Sourceforge.net now has a 3.7 Windows VM. I'd appreciate it if you could
update the bundles.
Cheers,
  - Andreas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org>
To: <chris at funkyobjects.org>; "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: 3.7-FULL bundled with old Windows VM


> Hi,
>
> I would be happy to.  The problem is that I can't find it.
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/squeak/
>
> has the 3.6.2 VM.
>
> While we're on the subject, does anyone have an opinon about the 3.7
> unix VMs as well?
>
> My tendency has been to use the released VMs, and, Ian calls these
> Beta.  I'm happy to use them if it's important.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Chris Muller wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed the 3.7 "full" download for Windows at
> >
> >
ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7/win/Squeak3.7-current-win-full.zip
> >
> > is still bundled with the 3.6.2 VM.
> >
> > I don't think Magma can endure many more months of the standard Windows
VM
> > being "behind" what it needs to work.  New users install and try it in
their
> > 3.6.2 and get instantly discouraged because of the missing primitive in
3.6.2.
> > I cannot release a new version and have it suffer these same perceptions
until
> > the correct VM is available in the standard download.
> >
> > Who maintains the ftp repository?  I beg you, PLEASE may we update this
to
> > include the 3.7 Windows VM?
> >
> >  - Chris
> >
>
> -- 
> edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>




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