Hi Why canât you use the latest Pharo vm and Pharo12? We worked like mad over the years to get a much better system. Now why do you need to bootstrap Pharo because you can just use a bootstrapped image and get pharo working and running? S
On 21 May 2024, at 09:31, Nicolas Graves via Pharo-dev <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote:
Hi Pharo community,
I'm trying to package pharo in the GNU Guix linux distribution. Since the distribution is focused on reproducibility and avoids using binary code when possible, for that I need to reproduce the bootstrapping steps that are embedded in Pharo. I understand from some developper online comment that this is possible.
I've started to work on this and it seems feasible, at least I get the dependency loop, what I've some difficulty is to get precisely when it's possible to get started.
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If I'm correct, - bootstrapping is very clear after version ~7.0.0, and with a proper build, just follow the distribution numbers in wget's with a cmake build-system. - for earlier versions, there's the repository https://github.com/pharo-project/PharoBootstrap that seems (git history) to be able to go back to Pharo 30. - I understand that at some point, Squeak and Pharo used to have the same VM. I have access to a squeak-vm 4.10.2.2614 in Guix, and I've seen this is in Pharo's ftp files, so I guess I can start there.
What I need: - Some indication about the first version of Pharo that I'm able to build purely from squeak-vm, and where to find its source code (git+version or commit if possible, I seem to only be able to find its binaries currently in phero's ftp files). - Any useful information for early bootstrap steps.
Some useful information on my side: - During the build process in Guix, we can't download data, so the entire bootstrap chain has to be explicited at once, hence the need to go back to the beginning in this case.
Thanks in advance!
-- Best regards, Nicolas Graves
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