On 21 May 2021, at 13:16, David Pennington <david@totallyobjects.com> wrote:

I am sorry but, being a newbie to Pharo, a lot of what you say goes over my head.

How do I use Zero Conf?

I have loaded up the latest 9.0 from Pharo launcher. How do I get the <1 VM for that?

Sorry for being stupid.

David

P.S. 31 years a Smalltalker so its just the underlying bits that pass over me - smile.

On 19 May 2021, at 08:38, tesonep@gmail.com wrote:

Hi David, 

   

   for M1 we have Pharo 9 compatible VMs, you can download them using Zero Conf or directly. 

For the latest: 

  - wget -O - https://get.pharo.org/vmLatest90 | bash

  - http://files.pharo.org/get-files/90/pharo-vm-Darwin-arm64-latest.zip

For the stable:

  - wget -O - https://get.pharo.org/vm90 | bash

  - http://files.pharo.org/get-files/90/pharo-vm-Darwin-arm64-stable.zip

If you are scripting the download I recommend using ZeroConf. 

For Pharo 8, we don't have a M1 native version, because Pharo 8 requires changes in the image to support the newer VMs. We have plans to backport the changes in the future, now we are putting all efforts in the release of Pharo 9. However, if the community consider it, we can switch priorities but it is not magical; we will need to leave something aside. Also, future versions of the Pharo Launcher will have support for detecting the architecture.

In the meantime, Pharo 8 / 9 can be used without a problem with Rossetta, although the performance is not ideal.

Tell me if you have any problem.

Cheers,

Pablo

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:54 PM David Pennington <david@totallyobjects.com> wrote:

Hi there. I am currently using v8.0 on a new M1 MacBookAir. When I save the image I keep getting a message telling me that my VM is too old and to download a new one. I have looked in my Pharo Launcher but there is no new one there. What do I do please?

David

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Pablo Tesone.
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