On 22-Sep-05, at 12:59 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> Does "the latest VMMaker" refers to the one on squeakmap, or to ones
> on your site?  The version numbering is confusing to me, because SM
> shows 3.8b4 as the latest.  I figure 37 references some other kind of
> versioning system.

On SM, for public releases, I've been using strings like VMMaker3.8b4  
to try to make a reasonably intuitable conenction to an image  
release. For less-public releases I leave it to MC to version number  
things.
>
> I'm guessing the new VM requires a new image format...
The converted to 64 bit images have a new (slightly) image format and  
code number but 32 bit images are just the same. The VM code is (we  
think) 64 bit clean so you can compile a 32 or 64 bit VM from the  
same codebase.

Ian's original alphatest package had a long description of all the  
variations possible so I won't repeat it.

tim
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