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

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Wed Mar 6 12:48:53 UTC 2013


Am 06.03.2013 um 13:46 schrieb Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:

> 
> 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:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.


:O

I was under the impression, that 5.4.7.1 was the 
latest, recommended non-Cog VM for mac… go figure

Best
	-tObias




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