Cuis-Smalltalk
Request for V3 image support
I understand that V3 image support was dropped recently.
In the past, for example when looking at the git tag BaseForCuis6.2 there was a v3 image.
This v3 image could be used on platforms with a classical Squeak vm (which was not OpenSmalltalk or Spur based).
Would it please be possible to continue to provide 32bit v3 images or is this request too much work please ?
Please note that from my perspective I still tihnk the old Squeak vm has some good points.
One issue is the support for the SPARC cpu (big endian) which I think is not present in the opensmalltalk VM's. Another issue is that I submitted/contributed a patch for the classical squeak VM in 2021 for the function sqUnixUtcWithOffset() and the HAVE_TM_GMTOFF issue in the plugins/LocalePlugin/sqLocalePlugin.c and the convertTosSqueakTime() function.
I'll create a separate issue for that anyhow because I think the OpenSmalltalk VM suffers from a similar (or perhaps different) issue similar to the one that my patch for the subversion sources in 2021 fixed for the classical Squeak VM.
Regards, David Stes
