On Linux, I've had some **possible** problems with returning swords as out parameters. There is a lot going on in that case, so it's premature to blame the vm - this is with Eliot's latest build.
Eliot's build have clear problems locating libraries on Ubuntu - looking for goodness in all the wrong places... Either way, I think there should be links to both sites and a clear drive to choose and fix a leader. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Johan Brichau [jo...@inceptive.be] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:50 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Which COG VM? I think somebody that maintains the website needs to replace the VM that is linked on the download page with the latest VM built in Jenkins. I had the same issues but when I switched to the latest built on Jenkins, I had no issues anymore. On 20 Jan 2012, at 22:31, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > On which machines are working your students? > Because on mac we do not see any problems. > BTW do you machine (windows) have tune off the virus check because this is > often a cause for trouble. > > >> 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 :-( > > This is really strange because we work all with Pharo like mad and we do not > experience that and some of us are really doing crazy think like swapping > class and their instances out of the image, or generation assembly on the > fly, or changing the event loop… > > >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> > >
