[squeak-dev] [Q] Last recommended VM for 3.10 basic ?

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Thu Apr 10 16:21:43 UTC 2008


I just downloaded Squeak3.10-7159-basic.zip and noticed that the image file name inside is 'Squeak3dot10.7159.image', not matching the release name.
As well, will there ever be a different version of 3.10-7159-basic? If so, then there needs to be a version number included.

For version 3.9 at <http://ftp.squeak.org/>, we have Squeak3.9-final-7067.zip with Squeak3.9-final-7067.image inside and Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.zip with Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image inside. So 'final' in the name evidently does not mean anything.

The latest dev image is sq3.10-7159dev08.04.1.zip with sq3.10-7159dev08.04.1.image inside.

Latest 3.10 dev images do not show up at <http://ftp.squeak.org/>, perhaps they could and should? 

Versions 3.10 requires version SqueakV39.sources which also is confusing, 3.9 versions also require SqueakV39.sources, however, versions 3.8 and below in the 3.x range require SqueakV3.sources.

And then there are the many VM's! Whew...

Might I respectfully suggest better standardization and consistency in naming conventions? All these confusing versioning issues could be dealt with in improved fashion. Craig has evidently given versioning some thought: <http://www.netjam.org/versions/>.

Ken G. Brown

At 5:00 AM -0700 4/10/08, squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote:
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:54:42 -0300
>From: "Edgar J. De Cleene" <edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar>
>Subject: [squeak-dev] [Q] Last recommended VM for 3.10 basic ?
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>	<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Message-ID: <C4236A32.D28C%edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar>
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>
>Folks:
>
>Seems I should produce the same directory structure of 3.9 release on
>http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/
>
>I ask to VM makers (John, Andreas, Ian, others) which one is the last they
>advice should be the "official" for put into the dirs.
>
>Also I beg Sophie and Seaside "OneClickExperience" share with me how put the
>needed files into the Mac VM structure for doing some OneClick3.10, could
>email private if needed.
>
>Edgar




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