Hi all,


> If you are mostly interested in making sure that people are aware of a new vm, a message that says a new vm is available with release notes and a method to update the vm would serve the same purpose.  A well placed red (!) exclamation point is really all you need. The method to update the vm could be as simple as taking the user to the download page (just like your original email message in this thread).

This is what I meant. Don't restrict compatibility, don't enforce users to install a new VM, but give them a short unobtrusive note if an update is available. We could place this in the "Update complete" dialog, for instance. We could also read the latest build number of the VM somewhere from squeak.org if we don't want to store this information in the image. Could this maybe help VM developers receive earlier feedback on new VM releases?

Best,
Christoph

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Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com>
Gesendet: Freitag, 16. September 2022 14:56:01
An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] OpenSmalltalk VM 2022 released (tag 202205110711)

Hi All,

If you are mostly interested in making sure that people are aware of a new vm, a message that says a new vm is available with release notes and a method to update the vm would serve the same purpose.  A well placed red (!) exclamation point is really all you need. The method to update the vm could be as simple as taking the user to the download page (just like your original email message in this thread).

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:56 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com<mailto:lewis at mail.msen.com>> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:10:00PM +0000, Thiede, Christoph wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> just a quick idea: Could we maintain the build number of the *recommended*
> (i.e., stable) OSVM version in the Trunk and remind users about a newer
> VM in the Transcript after processing the update stream?
>

-1

Images and VMs are loosely coupled and we all work hard to minimize
unnecessary dependencies between them. One VM can run many different
images, and an image can run on more than one kind of VM. That is
a good thing.

Remember that we have SqueakJS and other kinds of VM also.

Dave


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