[squeak-dev] How to switch vm's

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 19:20:19 UTC 2010


Ah, thanks..

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:28 AM, K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 April 2010 08:58:16 pm Chris Muller wrote:
>> I need to go back to the 3.10-4 vm to do some profiling.  I have two
>> VM's installed on my Ubuntu server linux box; 3.10-4 and the new
>> 4.0.3-2202.
> 3.10 vms had hard-coded paths that made it difficult for non-root users to try
> out squeak. The newer versions (3.11+) use a script squeak to detect and
> launch from any directory. i.e. if you unzip the tar.gz into $HOME/squeak/
>   $HOME/squeak/Squeak-4*/bin/squeak <imagefile>
>
> will do the right magic env settings and command line parameters to launch
> squeak. The bin/squeak.sh is for interactive launches. It throws up a native
> file selection dialog so you can choose the image path.
>
> You can use /usr/local/bin/squeak to launch 3.10 and
> $HOME/squeak/Squeak-4.0*/bin/squeak to try out newer version.
>
> HTH .. Subbu
>
>



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