[squeak-dev] All-in-one VM for 4.4?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Mar 6 12:46:07 UTC 2013


On 2013-03-06, at 08:31, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 05.03.2013 um 22:43 schrieb Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> 
>> On 2013-03-05, at 22:16, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The links for the Mac  vm's from here: http://squeakvm.org/mac/ are broken.
>>> Is there another place to find the interpreter VM for mac?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I found this one on the Pharo CI
>>> http://pharo.gforge.inria.fr/ci/vm/stack/mac/  Is that the one to use for
>>> Mac?
>> 
>> Please don't use VMs from random websites. I know Pharo's CI is not exactly random, but so far we have used the VMs from the official maintainers at squeakvm.org and we should not light-heartedly change that.
>> 
>>> No.  That's a stack VM.  John, are you still building Mac Interpreter VMs?  If so, where are they?
>> 
>> There has been no official interpreter VM release after John's 4.2 series. The latest is Squeak 4.2.5beta1U. These are the only Mac VMs that still work on PowerPC Macs. (we do get reports from US schools that still use those).
>> 
> 
> That's Carbon-Based.
> 
> What about the 5.4.7.1, which is cocoa based. ?
> It should do on ppc-based macs, still.
> 
> Best
> 	-tobias


It is a fat binary, true, but John didn't ever get to finish it. E.g., the display doesn't work correctly in 16 bpp.

- Bert -




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