Hey, Not to beat any dead horses, but is there any chance to include Ned Konz's Ctrl/Alt switch preference code into 3.2 final? I know the whole modifier key debate is pretty hot, but I think it's a wonderful compromise and it will probably be the first fileIn into every image that I have from now on...=)
Whisker would be nice too, but I digress..=)
I've been using 3.2gamma quite a bit and I have no other complaints...=)
Love and Squeaking, Blaine
From: Scott Wallace scott.wallace@squeakland.org Reply-To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org CC: Dan@Squeakland.org Subject: Re: 3.2 gamma handoff Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55:56 -0700
So 3.2 "final" is very close now, and this is a final call for complaints, suggestions, and problem reports.
Andrew kindly sent wording for the rights/openness paragraph.
I have been fleshing out and proofreading the contents of the ReadMe and Welcome windows.
Nobody has mentioned any issues regarding the 3.2gamma4 image recently posted, so at this point that 3.2gamma4 represents *precisely* the code base of the putative 3.2-final release, and 3.2-final will primarily differ from 3.2gamma4 only in the contents of the first-screen windows, plus having had a few standard last-minute-cleanup expressions evaluated.
Indeed, there has been no feedback whatsoever regarding 3.2gamma4, leaving me uncertain whether this represents "gamma burnout" -- i.e., nobody is using it -- or whether this bespeaks a satisfied community of gamma4 users who can attest to the absence of gotchas.
If *anybody* out there has used 3.2gamma4 and has any experiences to report, positive or negative or neutral, I would really appreciate hearing from you -- off-list is fine, unless there are issues worth bringing to the attention of the mailing list.
Thanks,
-- Scott
At 12:03 AM -0700 6/29/02, Dan Ingalls wrote:
Folks -
[I'm about to leave town]
I have incorporated the last updates I knew of (incl a couple JMM suggested that were required to compile a new VM on some platforms), have brought in an old copy of readme.txt, and have written a short word of caution to folks who should be at SqueakAlpha, not in Squeak.
I consider this final in code but not in appearance (please don't be shocked by the mess on screen). It needs...
- The readme to be updated (flaps and UI prefs at least) and combined
with the Getting Started text
- A proper statement about rights and openness from Andrew, to go in the
welcome window (probably at the end)
- Ted to fix the SqC image whose URL appears in the welcome window, and
it needs a good URL for Flash demo (suggestions??).
I have placed the latest image on UIUC as Squeak3.2gamma3.zip (I used Squeak to zip it, thanks for the encouragement).
I have spoken with Scott Wallace who says he is willing to do the final laying on of hands to finish this up.
If you have easily-implemented suggestions about the appearance of, or text to go in, the first-screen windows, please relay them promptly to Scott.
I will continue to be in touch be e-mail, though unable to do much of substance from here on. Scott knows this stuff well, and will probably do a better job that I at putting this baby in truly final form.
Good luck, y'all...
- Dan
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On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:56 pm, Blaine Buxton wrote:
Not to beat any dead horses, but is there any chance to include Ned Konz's Ctrl/Alt switch preference code into 3.2 final? I know the whole modifier key debate is pretty hot, but I think it's a wonderful compromise and it will probably be the first fileIn into every image that I have from now on...=)
Me too.
I've never had any problems with it, which is possibly because the default settings are quite conservative (just swaps the C,X,V, and A keys), but still allows you to swap others easily if you want.
I don't use the mouse button swapping any more, though, now that there is the -swapbtn flag to Ian's Unix VM.
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