this belongs to pharo-dev, please continue there :)
> On 15 Apr 2017, at 14:25, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 02:14:26PM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote: >> On 15 April 2017 at 11:53, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (actually, I'm not sure why you're bothering since 6 should >> be out before the end of the month, but that's your choice :-)). >> >> >> I just want something stable and reasonably modern for running existing >> applications and building new ones. >> >> If that means waiting for Pharo 6.0 release then that is okay with me. >> >> >> The (V6) linux install relies on a number of bash scripts to launch pharo >> (bin/pharo, bin/pharo-ui and bin/pharo-vm/pharo). How are you producing >> these, or are you doing something else? >> >> >> Here is where those scripts are generated in the existing pharo-vm packaging: >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/pharo/vm/ >> build-vm.nix#L50-L70 > > Ahh, so Nix is doing its own thing, not using the ZeroConf scripts. > > >> (I didn't write the nix packaging code but I have volunteered to maintain it >> so >> if it's out of date then I should fix that.) > > It will be for V6. Esteban has changed the scripts to ensure that Pharo > versions of libraries are loaded (from memory)(this is also partly why I > would like to use the full build process). > > >> git clone https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git >> <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm.git> >> git checkout <the stable code...> >> cd pharo-vm/opensmalltalk-vm/build.linux64x64/pharo.cog.spur/build >> ./mvm >> -- >> >> BTW: HEAD is currently eaf13db484ac87720d8454e66b5ce92f51c01036, and my >> experience is that it is significantly less stable than the latest >> binary, which is from 1c38b03fb043a2962f30f080db5b1292b5b7badb >> >> >> This is really the bleeding edge :-) both of those commits were pushed within >> the past three days! > > Yep, V6 is still in testing. :-) > > Cheers, > Alistair
