I think you can run the latest Pharo but with a slighter older vm with no issue (not sure - but think I’ve heard folks say this)
Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Jun 2018, at 09:58, Jordi Delgado <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that is a great idea. El Capitan is not that old and I bet there are > a lot of computers still running it. > > In my case, an iMac bought in 2007 with 4Gb ram, 512 Gb SSD disk and El > Capitan works like a charm, and I'm not going to quit using it until it stops > working. It's a pity that I cannot run the latest Pharo in it (I have no > problem with the latest versions of any of the other software I regularly > use). > > What you suggest is quite reasonable. Offering a Pharo 6.1 for OS X > pre-Sierra (as far as you can go backwards in time) would be great. Provided > it is possible, of course (maybe 6.1 images do not run in previous vm's; I do > not know). > >> On 14/06/18 10:44, Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> I guess we should work out which vm still works and put that as a footnote >> on the installation page? Possibly not worth fixing it for something several >> os versions black? >> Tim >> Sent from my iPhone >>> On 14 Jun 2018, at 09:37, Jordi Delgado <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I checked with Sierra and High Sierra, both Pharo and Squeak and everything >>> works ok. >>> >>> Thus, I guess some change/improvement was done to the vm's that broke them >>> for El Capitan. >>> >>> Thanks for your answers. >>> >>> On 13/06/18 23:41, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >>>>> On 13 Jun 2018, at 22:57, Jordi Delgado <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yes, I did. Same result. >>>>> >>>>> All the same happens with the latest version of Squeak. >>>>> >>>>> I tried with High Sierra. In HS Pharo 6.1 starts, the image opens but >>>>> then it complains about not being able to create some file in >>>>> /Private/var/... and the image becomes unusable. In High Sierra the >>>>> latest version of Squeak opens correctly. >>>> this is because you are trying to execute a non-signed VM then it puts you >>>> in a sandbox. >>>> easy fix: copy your VM into Applications and execute from there. >>>>> >>>>> Tomorrow I will try with Sierra, on a clean computer (a computer that >>>>> never had a Smalltalk installed in it). >>>>> >>>>> I insist. You do not find any of these problems with Ubuntu. Quoting >>>>> Robert de Niro, f*ck Apple ;) >>>> well, but is very weird. >>>> most of use work on mac and we do not have this problems (yes the one >>>> about the signed VM, but just that one). >>>> Esteban >>>>> >>>>> El 13/6/18 a les 21:55, Tim Mackinnon ha escrit: >>>>>> Have you tried the 32bit version - just to rule that out? You did the >>>>>> 64bit version - not sure how El Capitan faired with that? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Salut! >>>>> >>>>> Jordi Delgado >>>>> >>>>> Computer Science Department - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya >>>>> Campus Nord, Omega building, >>>>> Office S115 c/Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 >>>>> 08034 Barcelona, Spain. >>>>> Phone: +34.93.413.40.18 >>>>> Public Key: >>>>> https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB7911543AD9E79A8 >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Salut! >>> >>> Jordi Delgado >>> >>> Computer Science Department - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya >>> Campus Nord, Omega building, >>> Office S115 c/Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 >>> 08034 Barcelona, Spain. >>> Phone: +34.93.413.40.18 >>> Public Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB7911543AD9E79A8 >>> > > -- > Salut! > > Jordi Delgado > > Computer Science Department - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya > Campus Nord, Omega building, > Office S115 c/Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 > 08034 Barcelona, Spain. > Phone: +34.93.413.40.18 > Public Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB7911543AD9E79A8 >
