[squeak-dev] squeak.org downloads

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 07:17:06 UTC 2014


On 3 September 2014 23:20, Chris Cunnington <brasspen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Chris Muller wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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>> Exactly. And the 2776 VM has a pretty bad bug (random crash during incremental GC when the image has high network load). We were not able to track it down (we almost got it, but in the meanwhile we upgraded our production system), but the problem doesn't happen with the latest VM, so it's probably fixed
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> Great. Looks like we have consensus. I’ll make a deb of 3060 (I figure I ought to avoid *ht, *mt*, and *spur* versions, such as are as present in 3063).
> I think we can say that the latest virtual machine from Dr. Miranda is the "community accepted" virtual machine.
> Always a pleasure, gentlemen.

Is it possible to automate this debification? Can we store it in a
version control system somewhere? Such a tool seems like a nice thing
to add to github.com/squeak-smalltalk/ for instance.

frank

> Chris
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>> Levente
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>>> "notions" about Eliots latest Cog VM's, since I haven't tried them
>>> yet.
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>>> 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..
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>>>> 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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