[squeak-dev] [ANN] Changing the Trunk version from 6.0alpha to 5.2alpha

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Tue May 29 20:57:07 UTC 2018


Is it? The Downloads page[1] has a Virtual Machines section with all the 
links you need. I think it would help if there were some information given 
about what VM you need to download for your platform, but if you know 
that, then those links should be sufficient.

Levente

[1] https://squeak.org/downloads/

On Tue, 29 May 2018, karl ramberg wrote:

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