this belongs to pharo-dev, please continue there :)

On 15 Apr 2017, at 14:25, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 02:14:26PM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote:

On 15 April 2017 at 11:53, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710@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

Ahh, so Nix is doing its own thing, not using the ZeroConf scripts.

(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if it's out of date then I should fix that.)

It will be for V6.�� Esteban has changed the scripts to ensure that Pharo
versions of libraries are loaded (from memory)(this is also partly why I
would like to use the full build process).

������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!

Yep, V6 is still in testing. :-)

Cheers,
Alistair