in fact, I will promote a new stable soon, so I’d recommend for now take the master branch of https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm>
Esteban > On 4 Apr 2017, at 07:01, Luke Gorrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Questions! > > Where can I find the source code for the latest stable Linux/unix VM for > Pharo 5.0? I want to package it for a Linux distribution (NixOS). > > Currently I am confused: > > The release tarballs at http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/vm-unix-sources/blessed > <http://files.pharo.org/vm/src/vm-unix-sources/blessed> show the latest > non-Spur version being 2016-02-18. > > The github repo at https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm> has a tag Pharo50-stable on > commit b8ec25a which dates from 2016-05-04. (Is this tag immutable or does it > move around?) > > The URL for downloading binaries (get.pharo.org/vm50 > <http://get.pharo.org/vm50>) does not seem to say anywhere what version it is > downloading, and it was not obvious to me from downloading the binary and > inspecting it with 'strings' either (it's not for my distro so I can't just > run it with '--version'). > > Help would be appreciated! > > Great if somebody could also tell me under what circumstances the spur VM is > preferred to the non-spur VM. > >
