in fact, I will promote a new stable soon, so I���d recommend for now take the master branch of ��https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm

Esteban

On 4 Apr 2017, at 07:01, Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co> wrote:

Questions!

Where can I find the source code for the latest stable Linux/unix VM for Pharo 5.0? I want to package it for a Linux distribution (NixOS).

Currently I am confused:

The release tarballs at http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/vm-unix-sources/blessed show the latest non-Spur version being 2016-02-18.

The github repo at https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm has a tag Pharo50-stable on commit��b8ec25a which dates from 2016-05-04. (Is this tag immutable or does it move around?)

The URL for downloading binaries (get.pharo.org/vm50) does not seem to say anywhere what version it is downloading, and it was not obvious to me from downloading the binary and inspecting it with 'strings' either (it's not for my distro so I can't just run it with '--version').

Help would be appreciated!

Great if somebody could also tell me under what circumstances the spur VM is preferred to the non-spur VM.