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

Wed Apr 8 07:45:52 PDT 2015

Why not use the new url?

> On 08 Apr 2015, at 16:41, Dale Henrichs via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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