On 2012-12-06, at 14:24, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:25:56AM -0200, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>> 
>> On 12/5/12 8:25 PM, "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> A SqueakCore image is available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.4
>> 
>> No, such directory is empty.
>> The last one is in
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/SqueakCore4.3alpha-11722.zip
>> 
>> And could update to last trunk using the regular VM , not the CogVM.
>> With this , many handicapped hardware as my own G4's and Pentium 3's could
>> run it
> 
> Edgar, thanks for the reminder.
> 
> I think that we should do two things:
> 
> 1) Save the final release image as image format 6504 prior to release.
> This is done by resaving the image from an interpreter VM, which makes
> it usable by a wider range of VMs including some very old interpreter VMs
> that may still be in service (e.g. Edgars old Mac that does not have
> an updated interpreter VM available).

+1

> 2) In the image, get rid of the SmalltalkImage>>okayToSave warning. This
> was originally added to protect users with older interpreter VMs from
> saving their images with Cog, rendering them unreadable on the older VM.

Done.

> I think, but am not certain, that the okayToSave warning has outlived
> its usefulness. It also presents a serious problem because if we save the
> release image in 6504 format (as per above), then new users will see a
> confusing message the first time they save their image under Cog. The
> warning is factually incorrect, because it says 'Images saved under Cog
> cannot be opened on an interpreter again!' which is true if and only
> if the image had been saved from an obsolete interpreter VM. In other
> words, for most users today the warning message is incorrect, confusing,
> and wrong.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Dave

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