[Pharo-project] Please update Linux VM
Hi folks. PLEASE a good soul of you update the linux VM from webpage? http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22421/pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip Every single day there are folks asking in Pharo IRC channel how to use it. It is not intuitive and they are lost. No matter what you say, the reality is that they are lost and confused. We must put a readme.txt in pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip. The readme.txt can be something as easy as: " To run SqueakVm just do these steps: 1) uncompress this zip. 2) give execution permissons to the file "squeak" 3) run squeak like this: ./squeak /home/you/your.image " Thanks, Mariano
Don't forget the bit about renaming the UUID plugin _directory_ - that's a crash waiting to happen, unless it's been fixed?? Bill ________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Mariano Martinez Peck Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:54 PM To: Pharo Development Subject: [Pharo-project] Please update Linux VM Hi folks. PLEASE a good soul of you update the linux VM from webpage? http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22421/pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip Every single day there are folks asking in Pharo IRC channel how to use it. It is not intuitive and they are lost. No matter what you say, the reality is that they are lost and confused. We must put a readme.txt in pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip. The readme.txt can be something as easy as: " To run SqueakVm just do these steps: 1) uncompress this zip. 2) give execution permissons to the file "squeak" 3) run squeak like this: ./squeak /home/you/your.image " Thanks, Mariano
2009/8/5 Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu>:
Don't forget the bit about renaming the UUID plugin _directory_ - that's a crash waiting to happen, unless it's been fixed??
The UUID plugin has been renamed in the previous version some time ago. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
On 05.08.2009, at 14:54, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
Hi folks. PLEASE a good soul of you update the linux VM from webpage? http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22421/pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip
Every single day there are folks asking in Pharo IRC channel how to use it. It is not intuitive and they are lost. No matter what you say, the reality is that they are lost and confused. We must put a readme.txt in pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip. The readme.txt can be something as easy as:
" To run SqueakVm just do these steps: 1) uncompress this zip. 2) give execution permissons to the file "squeak" 3) run squeak like this: ./squeak /home/you/your.image "
Thanks,
Can you add a report at http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list (We should have a bot for that ;-) Marcus -- Marcus Denker - http://marcusdenker.de PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
2009/8/5 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>:
Hi folks. PLEASE a good soul of you update the linux VM from webpage? http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22421/pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip
Every single day there are folks asking in Pharo IRC channel how to use it. It is not intuitive and they are lost. No matter what you say, the reality is that they are lost and confused. We must put a readme.txt in pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip. The readme.txt can be something as easy as:
" To run SqueakVm just do these steps: 1) uncompress this zip. 2) give execution permissons to the file "squeak" 3) run squeak like this:Â Â ./squeak /home/you/your.image "
Done. Please download the new VM and tell me what you think about the new README file (written mostly by Lawrence Trutter): http://pharo-project.org/pharo-download -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com>wrote:
2009/8/5 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>:
Hi folks. PLEASE a good soul of you update the linux VM from webpage? http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/22421/pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip
Every single day there are folks asking in Pharo IRC channel how to use it. It is not intuitive and they are lost. No matter what you say, the reality is that they are lost and confused. We must put a readme.txt in pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip. The readme.txt can be something as easy as:
" To run SqueakVm just do these steps: 1) uncompress this zip. 2) give execution permissons to the file "squeak" 3) run squeak like this: ./squeak /home/you/your.image "
Done. Please download the new VM and tell me what you think about the new README file (written mostly by Lawrence Trutter):
Excellent! I would change 2 little things: "This directory contains a pre-built Pharo Virtual Machine (VM). So it should not be necessary to build your own VM in order to use this software." This is not ALWAYS true. Many people with 64bits or a different architecture (like the other day with alpah) has to compile the VM to make it work. So what I would do is to clarify where (hardware) this VM must work The other little thing I would add (yes, it is obvious) is a first step when you explain to run from command line, that explains how to unzip the zip and to be clear that the "squeak" file is the one that it is where you unzip the zip. Thanks!!! Mariano
http://pharo-project.org/pharo-download
-- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
"Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
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2009/8/6 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>:
Excellent! I would change 2 little things:
"This directory contains a pre-built Pharo Virtual Machine (VM). So it should not be necessary to build your own VM in order to use this software."
This is not ALWAYS true. Many people with 64bits or a different architecture (like the other day with alpah) has to compile the VM to make it work. So what I would do is to clarify where (hardware) this VM must work
The other little thing I would add (yes, it is obvious) is a first step when you explain to run from command line, that explains how to unzip the zip and to be clear that the "squeak" file is the one that it is where you unzip the zip.
Could you please send me a new README file with theses changes? -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
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