Preparing a Squeak Image and VM for Production

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Nov 17 10:34:27 UTC 2006


On Nov 16, 2006, at 21:39 , Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> - Any reason to use a 3.8 image -- like more stability?
>
> A lot of people are using 3.7 because of its stability. I wouldn't use
> 3.8 unless you need support for special encodings.

Is this verified? I'm using 3.7 on servers, too, but just because it  
works and I have no reason to change the setup. I use 3.8 for daily  
work without problems.

>> - Any reason to use a 3.9 image -- like essential bug fixes? (we  
>> do not
>> use Traits)
>
> 3.9 fixes the multilingual issues of 3.8, so I would prefer 3.9  
> over 3.8.

Are these fixes in 3.8.1, too? If not, which are missing?

- Bert -





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