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if it's out of date then I should fix that.)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