The latest COG VM, pointed to from the Pharo-project download page,
CogVM-*-13307.zip, seems to be a little unstable. Many students have been
reporting that it just hangs while doing nothing more than editing (not saving)
text, and I have seen long hangs while doing trivial things — these look to me
like synchronization bugs.
The COG that I used about a year ago (Jann–March 2011 timeframe), in contrast,
seemed rock solid, although it might have been slower.
I have two questions. First, where can I find an archive of PRE_BUILT VMs. I
don't want to give my students (or myself) the task of building a VM from
scratch.
Second, how can I find out what version of COG I'm running? SmalltalkImage
current versionLabel doesn't work. SmalltalkImage current buildDate gives me
a date, but how does that relate to the version numbers that I see in on the
COG web site?
Thanks. I want my students to have a good starting experience with Pharo, and
they are not. They are messing around trying to retrieve source from hosed
images :-(
Andrew
