Pharo on Raspberry Pi

I recently got a Raspberry Pi and was pleasantly surprised to see that smalltalk is part of the image. I quickly did a search to see if Pharo was available. While there was a flurry of messages about getting a version that would work on the. Pi. I haven't seem anything saying it had happened.

Is it possible to run Pharo on my RaspPi?

Tony,

On 07 Jun 2013, at 16:52, Tony Giaccone <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I recently got a Raspberry Pi and was pleasantly surprised to see that smalltalk is part of the image. I quickly did a search to see if Pharo was available. While there was a flurry of messages about getting a version that would work on the. Pi. I haven't seem anything saying it had happened.
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> Is it possible to run Pharo on my RaspPi?

Short answer: yes you can but only older versions (I think 1.4) since newer version (2.0 and up) depend on extra primitives in the VM (for FileSystem, Data/Time stuff). The VM on the RPi is quite old and there is not specific Pharo VM (yet).

Sven

Tony Giaccone wrote:
> I recently got a Raspberry Pi and was pleasantly surprised to see that smalltalk is part of the image. I quickly did a search to see if Pharo was available. While there was a flurry of messages about getting a version that would work on the. Pi. I haven't seem anything saying it had happened.
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> Is it possible to run Pharo on my RaspPi?
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You didn't say which smalltalk was there, so I'll just mention that Tim
Rowledge on [squeak-dev] list appears to have Squeak running on the RaspPi.

cheers -ben

Tony Giaccone wrote:

Actually smalltalk that comes  on the Pi is just the VM, there are no
images, I assume because of some kind of copyright issue. Which it seems
would not be a problem with Pharo, or am I mistaken?


Tony
  

I am not familiar with the situation with the Pi, you should ask Tim.
However in general terms, but both Squeak and Pharo are MIT licensed. 
Indeed Pharo forked from Squeak to focus more on a business environment.

cheers -ben

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

  

Tony Giaccone wrote:

    

I recently got a Raspberry Pi and was pleasantly surprised to see that
smalltalk is part of the image. I quickly did a search to see if Pharo was
available. While there was a flurry of messages about getting a version
that would work on the. Pi. I haven't seem anything saying it had happened.

Is it possible to run Pharo on my RaspPi?



      

You didn't say which smalltalk was there, so I'll just mention that Tim
Rowledge on [squeak-dev] list appears to have Squeak running on the RaspPi.

cheers -ben