Open Cobalt on Squeak 4.1 is available

> Hi. Open Cobalt now runs mostly as it should on Squeak 4.1. It
> is not a finished port, but it is definitely enough to start
> playing with, testing out OpenGL, packaging it up for
> installation into current images, or whatever.
>
> Up to date instructions are kept at
> http://cobalt.cs.duke.edu/pub/INSTALLING.txt
>
> Reply with any questions. Current copy of installation
> instructions reproduced below.
>
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>
> Welcome to the beta version of Cobalt ported to Squeak 4.1
>
> To run me, you will need:
> - the latest cobalt-trunk.*.zip file from
>  http://cobalt.cs.duke.edu/pub/
> - the latest opencobalt-1.0alpha*.zip from
>  http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jdougan/downloads/1.0alpha1/
> - A recent VM from http://squeakvm.org
> - http://ftp.squeak.org/sources_files/SqueakV39.sources.gz
>
> 1. Unzip the opencobalt-1.0alpha*.zip folder somewhere
> 2. Unzip the cobalt-trunk.*.zip file inside the
>   opencobalt-1.0alpha* folder. It
>   contains 3 files:
>   cobalt-trunk.*.image
>   cobalt-trunk.*.changes
>   config/cobalt-browser.conf
> 3. unzip SqueakV39.sources.gz and put SqueakV39.sources into the
>   opencobalt-1.0alpha* folder
> 4. run cobalt-trunk.*.image using your VM
> 5. Do this: CProjectMorph open: CobaltModularPanel
> 6. Click the menu item Cobalt > Start Cobalt
>
> == About this image ==
>
> This image is a trunk image from November 2009, updated to the
> latest code in the trunk repository, except where that conflicts
> with Cobalt.  Feel free to make a better image based on the
> current, 4.1 images.
>
> Known issues are listed at
> http://cobalt.cs.duke.edu/pub/cobalt41todo.txt
>
> --
> Matthew Fulmer (a.k.a. Tapple)
>
>

> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:15:56PM +0100, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>> Hi Matthew,
>> is there any consensus/conclusion on sticking to Squeak 4.1 or coming 4.2
>> as the official base for Cobalt?
>
> Currently, the official base for Cobalt is the unsupported
> 3.8-derived Croquet Homebase image, although we plan to change
> this by mid-january.
>
> I just resumed the port to squeak trunk this past week. It is
> tracking the trunk right now, and I don't see any need to use a
> stable squeak as base until cobalt itself is stable (which will
> be at least another year)
>
>> If so, what's the status? (I have seen krestianstvo SDK but got
>> blocked in front of too much russian text/code...)
>
> I just resumed the port. I just released open cobalt 1.0 alpha 4
> with squeak trunk as a base today. It is as close to the
> official open cobalt 1.0 alpha 4 as possible, sans bugs. I am
> working to make squeak trunk ready to be the official base of
> OpenCobalt by January:
>
> http://cobalt.cs.duke.edu/pub/1.0-alpha-trunk/opencobalt-1.0alpha4-trunk.zip
>
> For reference, the official current version of cobalt is:
>
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jdougan/downloads/1.0alpha/opencobalt-1.0alpha4.zip
>
> --
> Matthew Fulmer (a.k.a. Tapple)
>
>