[squeak-dev] Squeak VM on Debian? (http://ftp.squeak.org/4.5/cogvm_2776-1_i386.deb)

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 04:44:48 UTC 2014


I went back to the Squeak VM which is offered through the software
installation center.

The command
    squeak
is available.

Interestingly the option
    squeak --version
    squeak  -version
    squeak -v
is not implemented. I assume the VM is pretty old.

--Hannes

On 9/5/14, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 05.09.2014, at 12:17, Chris Cunnington <brasspen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Please try this:
>> >
>> > cogvm --version
>> >
>> > It all made sense to Ken. And I don?t suppose he figured this would be
>> > for general use.
>>
>> It wasn't, and we probably should not distribute it. It was just to keep
>> the server maintenance sane.
>>
>> Besides, it only works on Debian-derivatives. Redhat derivatives (Fedora,
>> SuSE, etc) use rpm.
>>
>> > And I guess I?d gotten used to it, as I?ve installed it on three
>> > systems.
>> > I?ll change the script from ?cogvm" to ?squeak?, which is what people
>> > would reasonably expect.
>> > It?s a great point. Thank you for raising it. I?ll make a new one.
>>
>> Indeed. It should be "squeak". However, that "squeak" script should pick
>> the interpreter or cog depending on the image.
>>
>
> A technical note - Ian's squeak start script contains all the hooks to do
> this,
> but it the near term it is not a practical solution, in part because 64-bit
> plugins cannot be shared with a 32-bit executable in the installation.
>
> The reality is that cogvm and squeakvm are different, and they should not
> stomp on each other's name spaces. So I personally think that using the
> name
> "cogvm" is a reasonable solution to the current name space conflict.
>
> But regardless of my opinion, a change like that should not be distributed
> through squeak.org unless the interested parties agree.
>
> At a minimum, Eliot should agree in this case, and it would also be nice if
> we
> all can agree on a name convention that works around the current name
> conflict.
>
> Dave
>
>
>


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