[squeak-dev] squeak.org downloads

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 19:12:59 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Chris Cunnington <brasspen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I’ve routed the Download button on the homepage to the Downloads page. I’ve added content to the Downloads page. Two things may be different than expected. The first is that I’ve put the cogvm_2776-1_i386.deb in the FTP archive’s 4.5 directory so it can be downloaded from the Downloads page. The second thing is the version number of the Cog vms which is 2776.
>
> There seems to be a tacit concept of a “community approved vm” floating in the community. One the one hand it appears that Dr. Miranda feels his latest release is the CAvm. Chris Muller and Levente have other notions. When I offered to upgrade the vm debs in the servers several months ago, Chris and Levente wanted to see “tests” first. No mention of what might constitute these “tests” was forthcoming.

No, that's not quite right.  Just to be clear, the conversation w/
you, me and Levente was about you having upgraded the production
web-site VM with a *Spur* VM, not Cog VM's.  I do not have any
"notions" about Eliots latest Cog VM's, since I haven't tried them
yet.

But, yes, new VM's should not only be "unit tested" but also _prove_
themselves in real-world application tests in test-environments before
releasing them to the world or running them in production-critical
environments.  I don't think there's any debate about that..

> I’m stepping out of this debate. I’m just telling you why the Cog vms in the advanced section of the Downloads page are pegged at 2776. It was the simplest thing to do. I already had a deb for it.


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