On 12/31/12, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 04:08:29PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> On 31 December 2012 15:22, Herbert K?nig <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Am 31.12.2012 15:30, schrieb Frank Shearar:
>> >
>> >> Regarding the All-in-One, is it sufficient to take the 4.3 one and
>> >> replace
>> >> the Cog and image/changes file in it to produce a new one? frank
>> >
>> > yes, at least that's what I always do. Replacing all Cog VM's needs
>> > some
>> > extra care in Linux as to remove all scripts which still point to the
>> > old
>> > VM. At least from a Windows point of view this is complicated.
>>
>> Mm, it's not just that: there are bits of VM and plugins scattered all
>> over the place.
>
> The 4.3 All-in-One package is using a standard interpreter VM. I think
> we'll
> need some follow up discussion as to which VMs to include in the All-in-One
> package for 4.4.
>
> My initial suggestion would be to do the package by replacing only the
> image and changes files, which should produce a known-working configuration
> for existing platforms.

+1

> There are newer intepreter VMs on squeakvm.org, but I am aware of one issue
> for the Linux build that might make it inappropriate for the All-in-One
> package. The VM is compiled on a relatively new Linux distribution, and
> will not run on some older distributions because of a Linux library
> compatibility
> issue.
>
> We may also be able to use Cog VMs at this point, I'm not really sure
> which would be best.
>
> Dave
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