On Sep 18, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2013-09-18, at 08:28, news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) wrote:
>
>> I am on OSX 10.8.5 (Mac mini Late 2012 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 ) and
>> tried to download a VM
>>
>> The ones on the download
>> page<http://www.pharo-project.org/pharo-download> all seem to give me an
>> .app that OSX says is damaged when I try to open it.
>
> I just tried and I cannot confirm that – strange. Could you try again?
>
>>
>> I went to <http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/3.0/mac/>
>>
>> The stable which has the same date as the one on the download pages is
>> reported as damaged but the
>> <http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo/3.0/mac/Pharo-VM-mac-latest.zip> dated
>> 16th Sept starts.
>>
>> I have a older working VM
>>
>> Smalltalk vm version.
>> 'NBCoInterpreter NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
>> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
>> NBCogit NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid:
>> a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
>> git://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed.git Commit:
>> 412abef33cbed05cf1d75329e451d71c0c6aa5a7 Date: 2013-03-13 17:48:50 +0100
>> By: Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> Jenkins build #14535
>> '
>>
>> Which is the correct stable Mac VM?
>
> the one that has "stable" in its name.
> latest => unstable / alpha / test release
> stable => THE stable one
>
> now that this is clear ;), what you downloaded in the first place is the
> all-in-one platform package which includes an image. Honestly I don't know
> why we still need this, but its there. The platform package is built on the
> stable VM release (as you correctly figured out). Currently the latest VM
> is close(-ish) to release.
no, it is not :)
is the "platform specific distribution of vm+image", something that we kinda
need, but better than now :)
Esteban
>
> Does this answer your questions?
