[squeak-dev] Downloading a VM is hard

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Jan 28 21:47:14 UTC 2014


There seems to be a bit of a problem with downloading recent VMs. We probably don’t want to actually put people off so early. If we’re putting out a nice new release we surely want to make it easy for users to try it out?

Go to squeak.org and click on the Download link. 
Find ‘Latest Development’ and follow the ‘Get a VM here’ link to…
squeakvm.org
Thence to http://www.squeakvm.org/mac where we find an ancient mess. Try the ‘CogVM’ link and 
a) the server isn’t responding right now
b) it looks like it would be a Pharo VM anyway

I also looked on http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/ but nothing later than last August, which I already have.

What easy, up to date, "obvious to a newcomer” am I missing? Sure, I suppose I could suffer through the setup to compile my own but honestly I really don’t have any wish to bugger about with XCode. I did it once a long time ago, and that was enough.

tim
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