Hi,
Pharo 4 might be hard on MacOS Sierra.
There was a late change to the VM, at least for Squeak, to stop the black screen on startup on Sierra. Pharo 4 was before that change, and, for that matter, before Sierra. Pharo 5 was after and clearly has that change.
I updated the VM on Pharo 4 to work also on Sierra, so this does not remains true :)
no, it will not work, because Pharo 5 is spur and Pharo 4 is not
So it would look as if one's choices are:
* Build the version of the VM from the Pharo 4 bundle, but, apply one or both of the patches above.
* Figure out why Pharo 4 is necessary and move to Pharo 5.
* Run a squeak V3 VM and hack something together. This might not give the full Pharo experience.
To run the squeak V3 do the following:
Download and unzip the newest Squeak V3 VM.
https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/download_file...Alt click on the CocoaFast app and choose open.
Quit.
Download Pharo 4. Alt click on Pharo 4 and choose "Show Package Contents." Navigate to Contents -> Resources. Drag the "Pharo4.0.image" overtop the CocoaFast app and it launches. You do have startup errors, so, you now have some time to play around.
I realize that neither look so easy, though the second one is probably the wisest just because the Pharo group moves quickly.
��� or you can download the Pharo 4.0 VM (from here:
http://files.pharo.org/get-files/40/) and run your Pharo 4.0 and Pharo 3.0 app without problems (I didn���t try Pharo 2.0 and 1.4, but I do not see why they wouldn���t work).
now, Pharo 1.0 will not work I think, because it is not a Stack image (it didn���t existed at the time)��� there yes, you will need one of the legacy VMs that we do not maintain anymore��� for that, there are some VMs around, but I frankly would migrate any 1.0 based image��� is work (and maybe hard work), but at the end it will pay :)
if what you have is a OneClick package, the best approach is to extract your Pharo*.image, Pharo*.changes and Pharo*.sources and then use the Pharo 4.0 VM with them,
cheers,
Esteban
cheers
bruce
14 janvier 2017 12:19 Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> a ��crit:I don't know yet Jeff. I don't have either a macos sierra at hand. Once
a Mac OS Sierra user reported me the problem your are mentioning[1], but
I did not get very far investigating the problem.
For me it is not clear at all from[2] if there is any Mac VM 4.0. May be
Esteban can enlighten us.
[1] http://forum.drgeo.eu/DrGeo-pb-mac-os-Sierra-td402...
[2] http://pharo.org/download
Le 14/01/2017 �� 11:35, J.F. Rick a ��crit :
> So, what's the proper procedure? I just moved my Pharo4 to the
> Application directory and it didn't work? Launched but the window is
> black. Is there a new Pharo4 VM for MacOS? If so, where is it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
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