Hi Why can’t you use the latest Pharo vm and Pharo12? We worked like mad over the years to get a much better system. Now why do you need to bootstrap Pharo because you can just use a bootstrapped image and get pharo working and running?
S > On 21 May 2024, at 09:31, Nicolas Graves via Pharo-dev > <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > > Hi Pharo community, > > I'm trying to package pharo in the GNU Guix linux distribution. Since > the distribution is focused on reproducibility and avoids using binary > code when possible, for that I need to reproduce the bootstrapping steps > that are embedded in Pharo. I understand from some developper online > comment that this is possible. > > I've started to work on this and it seems feasible, at least I get the > dependency loop, what I've some difficulty is to get precisely when it's > possible to get started. > > ------------------- > | v > pharo VM pharo > ∧ | > ------------------- > > If I'm correct, > - bootstrapping is very clear after version ~7.0.0, and with a proper > build, just follow the distribution numbers in wget's with a cmake > build-system. > - for earlier versions, there's the repository > https://github.com/pharo-project/PharoBootstrap > that seems (git history) to be able to go back to Pharo 30. > - I understand that at some point, Squeak and Pharo used to have the > same VM. I have access to a squeak-vm 4.10.2.2614 in Guix, and I've seen > this is in Pharo's ftp files, so I guess I can start there. > > What I need: > - Some indication about the first version of Pharo that I'm able to > build purely from squeak-vm, and where to find its source code > (git+version or commit if possible, I seem to only be able to find its > binaries currently in phero's ftp files). > - Any useful information for early bootstrap steps. > > Some useful information on my side: > - During the build process in Guix, we can't download data, so the > entire bootstrap chain has to be explicited at once, hence the need to > go back to the beginning in this case. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Best regards, > Nicolas Graves Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr 06 30 93 66 73 "If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes
