[etoys-dev] Test new 4.1.2 alpha

kharness at illinois.edu kharness at illinois.edu
Mon May 30 08:35:48 EDT 2011


Hi, 
There is an amazing amount of work being done right for the new release, thanks Karl and Bert! 
I have been trying to follow all the changes. What is the Notice, I don't think I have seen it before?
Kathleen

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:31:41 +0200
>From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>  
>Subject: Re: [etoys-dev] Test new 4.1.2 alpha  
>To: etoys dev <etoys-dev at squeakland.org>
>
>   On 30.05.2011, at 05:36, karl ramberg wrote:
>
>     On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Bert Freudenberg
>     <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
>       I created a 4.1.2 alpha 3:
>            
>        http://etoys.squeak.org/download/4.1/Etoys-To-Go-4.1.2-alpha3.zip
>
>       Xin Wang: this should have the new home project.
>
>       Everything is committed to SVN, including the
>       notes in what I did. The release-howto now also
>       describes how to build the image, update the
>       translations, and make an Etoys-To-Go zip file.
>       Sorry, no screencast this time ;)
>
>     I'll read trough this.
>
>       I updated the NEWS file but left filling in the
>       details of 4.1.2391 to you:
>
>            
>        http://etoys.squeak.org/svn/trunk/Etoys/NEWS
>
>       (I was surprised anyone thought UML is a good
>       thing to add to the Basic category of the object
>       catalog)
>
>     Steve wanted the Notice as a kind of postIts to
>     use in projects.
>
>   But does it have to be in "Basic"? Also, Steve by
>   now is an advanced user, he sure knows where to find
>   it if he needs it?
>   In the German translation, that object is called
>   "UML-Notiz". I bet not many of our users know or
>   care what UML is. Looks rather jarring on the first
>   page of a tool aimed at children and teachers:
>   I'd rather not add features at all in a bug-fix
>   release. Making things easier to access might count
>   as bug fix, so I won't object. But please put it in
>   the Connectors category where it belongs.
>
>       Also, when you try to run the ReleaseBuilder it
>       will complain that the NOTICE file does not
>       match the in-image copyright notice. To fix that
>       you simply need to change the copyright methods
>       to look the same as that file. I did not want to
>       spend time on it today.
>
>     I will look at that
>     Also,  Alpha2 have a updated version of project
>     ParticleDyeInWater and the video to that project.
>     Karl
>
>   Ah. Please commit it to the subversion repository.
>   It's the same username/password as for the update
>   stream.
>   - Bert -
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