Andreas,

    Thanks for the new release. The prefernce menu is very nice now. (But
still not as good as a Menu Morph ;-)

>  What *has* changed, however, are some of the tools that I am using. After
>  some discussion offline I decided to switch to later versions of both, GCC
>  and the MingW headers/libs (makes some stuff less painful in the code).
>  Because of this, you may have trouble to compile the VM with any existing
>  setup. But wait! Help is on its way. I've assembled all the tools you need
>  to recompile the VM at
> 
>  http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/src/tools/
> 
>  so if you want to recompile the VM I *strongly* recommend using the
versions
>  provided there. It will spare all of us lengthy discussions about "why I
am
>  getting this or that error when I am trying to recompile the VM". Please
see
>  also the file readme.txt in the above directory why some of the tools need
>  to to have exactly this version and no later or earlier ones.

    I also found a wonderful tool for people like to play with the VM, at:

http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim/pooters/SqFiles/deltas

    quite good as a beta. Hope it will be included in the tool chest for the
VM Lovers.

    Btw, would you please consider to include a regession test suite in the
tools and/or instructions to use the currently available testing tools
(SUnit ?). I like to see if the VM and plugins I built have any show
stoppers builtin ;-). Only then I consider it is ready for the Minimal World
and good enough for you to look at.

    Cheers,

    PhiHo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raab, Andreas" <Andreas.Raab@[...].com> 
To: <squeak@[...].edu> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:47 PM
Subject: [Win32][VM]: Update to 3.1 Alpha build 4


>  Folks,
> 
>  I've just released Alpha build 4 of the 3.1 VM which is in the usual
places
>  at
> 
>  http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/SqueakExe.zip
>  http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/src/Squeak3.1Alpha4Src.zip
> 
>  Please note that there are no really big changes in the VM - most of the
>  stuff that has changed was related to fixing a few bugs here and there
(like
>  making the single mouse button preference work again, fix a few issues
with
>  plugins etc).
> 
>  What *has* changed, however, are some of the tools that I am using. After
>  some discussion offline I decided to switch to later versions of both, GCC
>  and the MingW headers/libs (makes some stuff less painful in the code).
>  Because of this, you may have trouble to compile the VM with any existing
>  setup. But wait! Help is on its way. I've assembled all the tools you need
>  to recompile the VM at
> 
>  http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/src/tools/
> 
>  so if you want to recompile the VM I *strongly* recommend using the
versions
>  provided there. It will spare all of us lengthy discussions about "why I
am
>  getting this or that error when I am trying to recompile the VM". Please
see
>  also the file readme.txt in the above directory why some of the tools need
>  to to have exactly this version and no later or earlier ones.
> 
>  Thanks and enjoy,
>    - Andreas
>