I made a pull request from the work-in-progress branch where I am tweaking things to build the latest VM under nix: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/129 The tricky bit that I haven't confronted properly yet is the overlap between nix and mvm/zeroconf i.e. each one wants to be in charge of managing the shared library dependencies. I'd ideally like to handle the dependencies on the nix side and have a sufficient test suite to check that the VM+libs that I provide works with the popular images too. Is such a test suite available perhaps? But maybe I will need to build the exact same libraries as mvm does or even fall back to packaging binary releases of the VM instead of building them myself. (mvm script is not directly usable for reasons sketched in the PR.) On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 at 14:46, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:

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(I didn't write the nix packaging code but I have volunteered to maintain it so if it's out of date then I should fix that.)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