On 15 April 2017 at 11:53, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (actually, I'm not sure why you're bothering since 6 should > be out before the end of the month, but that's your choice :-)). > I just want something stable and reasonably modern for running existing applications and building new ones. If that means waiting for Pharo 6.0 release then that is okay with me. The (V6) linux install relies on a number of bash scripts to launch pharo > (bin/pharo, bin/pharo-ui and bin/pharo-vm/pharo). How are you producing > these, or are you doing something else? > Here is where those scripts are generated in the existing pharo-vm packaging: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/ development/pharo/vm/build-vm.nix#L50-L70 (I didn't write the nix packaging code but I have volunteered to maintain it so if it's out of date then I should fix that.) git clone https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git > git checkout <the stable code...> > cd pharo-vm/opensmalltalk-vm/build.linux64x64/pharo.cog.spur/build > ./mvm > -- > > BTW: HEAD is currently eaf13db484ac87720d8454e66b5ce92f51c01036, and my > experience is that it is significantly less stable than the latest > binary, which is from 1c38b03fb043a2962f30f080db5b1292b5b7badb > This is really the bleeding edge :-) both of those commits were pushed within the past three days! I will take a look at the ./mvm script now.
