[squeak-dev] Re: The version 3.10 does not work on Linux.

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Jun 1 07:27:39 UTC 2008


John M McIntosh wrote:
> Really I suspect the VM version numbers should fully decouple from the 
> image version numbers, really nothing requires one to use a 3.10 image 
> to build a  VM that will work with a 3.10, I'm quite happy to continue 
> working with my 3.8 VMMaker image...

And of course the story comes full circle once people realize that the 
reason for naming the VMs according to image versions was precisely in 
response to complaints about how confusing it is that the versions 
differ ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> 
> At the moment I'm fully occupied with a VM rewrite, post Sophie era, so 
> I'll take hints on what the new macintosh version should be called...
> 
> 
> On May 31, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Giovanni Corriga wrote:
>>> At the moment, the current version of the Windows vm is 3.10.6 . If I 
>>> where a newbie, I would expect to have a 3.10.6 image too, to use 
>>> with that vm.
>>
>> I see. It seems difficult to change that though, because the VMs do 
>> evolve differently. Any ideas how to improve the situation?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
>>
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