[Glass] Warning: GsDevKitHome scripts for building pharo images are currently broken ...

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

The Pharo folks have restored the http://get.pharo.org/vmLatest service 
and have acknowledged that it was a mistake to just turn it off ...

The service will be maintained for another 2-3 months giving us time to 
convert in an orderly fashion.

I am still torn about using get.pharo.org.

The little bash script that get's run when you hit the url, is awfully 
convenient and if I were to switch to direct ftp downloads, I'd have to 
duplicate (and maintain) a similar script myself and learn more about 
pharo's (potentially changing) execution model than I'd like ...

Thoughts?

Dale

On 4/7/15 9:37 PM, Dale Henrichs wrote:
> Apparently when the folks updating the Pharo ZeroConf scripts[1] used 
> for downloading Pharo3.0 finished their work, they decided that the 
> urls used for downloading the pharo vm would be discontinued:
>
> nehalem:pharo daleh$ wget -O- get.pharo.org/vmLatest | bash
> --2015-04-07 21:15:05--  http://get.pharo.org/vmLatest
> Resolving get.pharo.org... 128.93.162.72
> Connecting to get.pharo.org|128.93.162.72|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2015-04-07 21:15:06 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> This of course breaks the $GS_HOME/bin/installPharo script. It looks 
> like the workaround is to replace get.pharo.org/vmLatest with 
> get.pharo.org/vm30 in the $GS_HOME/bin/installPharo script ...
>
> I am not going to push out a patch until I decide whether to continue 
> to use get.pharo.org or go with the more stable route of downloading 
> vms and images directly from the ftp site ...
>
> Sorry for any convenience this may  cause ... I've created an issue[2] 
> for this if you're interested ...
>
> Dale
>
> [1] 
> http://forum.world.st/Updating-ZeroConf-Please-do-not-use-it-until-new-advice-td4818041.html
> [2] https://github.com/GsDevKit/gsDevKitHome/issues/76