On Saturday, June 30, 2001, at 10:11 AM, John Hinsley wrote:
Also, now that Mark's book has finally made it to these far off shores (on order for nearly 3 months!) how much of it is 2.8 specific? [Brow furrows while trying to work out how to have two different versions of Squeak living in happy harmony on the same system. Decides to go back to bed instead.]
Actually, it's very easy to have more than one version of Squeak living in harmony on your system. Heck, I probably have about 50 versions of Squeak sitting on my hard drive, ranging from Squeak 2.2 to 3.1alpha. (I guess that would be 50 .image/.changes combos, but probably only 7 or 8 VM's.)
A nice thing about Squeak is that each .image/.changes pair is a standalone environment which doesn't interfere with other images. You can even run more than one version of Squeak at the same time... I need to do this on occasion. (Contrast this with, say, VisualAge/Java, with which it isn't possible to run more than one version at a time.)
Anyway, you can always keep your 2.8 and 3.0 versions of Squeak in separate directories, so that you don't intermingle changesets that belong to one or the other.
- Doug Way dway@riskmetrics.com