[Vm-dev] Squeak VM update on OpenIndiana

[David T. Lewis]

Hello David,

Thanks for the update.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 05:04:17PM +0100, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here's some news on Squeak on "OpenIndiana".
> 
> OpenIndiana is an illumos based operating system derived from OpenSolaris; 
> 
> Current upgrades in the repository,
> 
>    http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/index.shtml
> 
>    squeak-4 : version 4.19.5
>    squeak-5 : version 5.0.2945

Are users able to load both "squeak-4" and "squeak-5" on the same
machine?  If there are issues, I can share the shell script that I
use to resolve naming conflicts.

Dave

> 
> There are packages for 'headless' (-nodisplay) operation and with GUI.
> 
> I've made up the version 5.0.2945 myself this corresponds roughly to
>  VM Maker: VMMaker.oscog-eem.2945
> 
> This is because normally there is a 3 digit version number, but for
> OpenSmalltalk VM I just use the number 5.0.2945.
> 
> Special thanks to everybody in the "Squeak" and "opensmalltalk-vm" team.
> 
> Thanks,
> David Stes
>