Making it easier to find and download new VM builds should be a priority.
It's quite hard to find a recent VM following links from squeak.org

Best,
Karl


On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, 27 May 2018 at 12:57 pm, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Fabio!
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I will test using the pre-release version.
>>
>> What is strange then is that far older versions than 201804030952 are
>> still available on Bintray.
>>
>> It would be good to have this descriptions on Bintray maybe with a link
>> to the GitHub releases page. On the main GitHub page there are links to the
>> stable release and to the bleeding edge versions. Maybe a link to the
>> latest pre-release should be added?
>
>
> Yes, we should extend the docs. Up until recently, I've always seen the
> Bintray artifacts as something vm-dev people need, but it turns out that
> there are some users downloading these artifacts as well.
>
> We could promote the pre-release to be a proper release, then the link
> would automatically point to it. Instead of manually adding a link to
> pre-releases, I'd much rather like us to fix the release process.
>
> Fabio
>
>
>
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>> > Am 26.05.2018 um 23:02 schrieb Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 6:40 PM Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I saw that the 5.2alpha build contains the VM with the version
>> 201804030952, which is not the latest version on Bintray (and interestingly
>> is not even in the versions list on https://bintray.com/
>> opensmalltalk/vm/cog).
>> >>
>> > The VMs on Bintray are removed after a few weeks to save storage costs.
>> More importantly, these VMs are considered bleeding edge and I don't think
>> it's a good idea to test a bleeding edge Squeak image with a bleeding edge
>> VM. If something is broken, it can be really hard to tell if the problem is
>> in the VM or in the image.
>> > The VMs that ship with the current 5.2alpha builds are from the latest
>> VM pre-release which you can find at [1]. Unfortunately, the latest stable
>> VM release [2] is from 2016.
>> >
>> > Fabio
>> >
>> > [1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-
>> vm/releases/tag/201804030952
>> > [2] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/latest
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Should testing happen with this VM or with the latest from Bintray?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Bernhard
>>
>>
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