[squeak-dev] [ANN] OpenSmalltalk VM 2022 released (tag 202205110711)

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 23:46:29 UTC 2022


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 7:20 AM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> 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?
>

+1

>
> Best,
> Christoph
>
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> Auftrag von Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 16. September 2022 14:56:01
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> *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>
> 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
>>
>
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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