[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] Mac VM Maintainer resignation (for the general purpose VM, not for PharoVM)

Bob Arning arning315 at comcast.net
Sat Oct 19 16:07:09 UTC 2013


Well, trying a different url from the one on the squeak vm page

http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/mac/stable.zip

does run a squeak image on a Mac. I have it running the server for 
http://69.251.218.6:9116/edit, so we can see how that works.

Cheers,
Bob

On 10/19/13 10:55 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:20:51AM -0400, Bob Arning wrote:
>> One of the shortfalls is knowing what VMs are actually available. You
>> suggest trying Esteban's, but where is it found? I have tried
>> http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/release/Squeak%205.7.4.1.zip and that
>> handles the trackpad better than COG, but is this Esteban's? It is over
>> two years old, so I'm guessing not. A few more lines of explanation and
>> perhaps a link or two on http://www.squeakvm.org/mac/ would be useful.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bob
>>
> This was exactly the point of Tim's original inquiry:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2013-October/174063.html
>
> Esteban's message was a follow up to that topic (with some private communication
> in between).
>
> Tim was referring to the links at http://squeakvm.org/mac/ which is intended
> to provide download links for supported Squeak VMs. The "Latest Builds" section
> currently points to Esteban's Pharo derived versions of the VM, and that is
> what I meant in referring to Esteban's build.
>
> I am not a Mac user, and I don't know if Esteban's build will work with
> Squeak.  I am curious to know the answer, that's all. In any case, it is
> clear that at some point we'll need a platform maintainer who can answer
> questions like this and keep the squeakvm.org/mac page properly updated.
>
> Dave
>
>
>

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