Is it worth delaying the release?

[Andrew Tween]

<bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi Andy, Any chance you could build a Win 32 version of the VM for the
> release?  VM's for other platforms would also be nice too. It would be
> really great to release on two platforms at once.
>
> The versions to use are:
>   Exupery-wbk.219
>   VMMAker-wbk.42
>

No problem.
Any particular version of the SVN vm sources?
Are you building the vm from a 3.8 basic image, 3.8 full, or 3.9? It may not
make any difference, but I would like to build from the exact-same setup that
you use.

> The big decision was really between releasing on VMMaker 3.8b3 based
> VMs or upgrading to VMMaker 3.8b6. We're hoping that upgrading will
> solve the problems that the Mac x86 port is having. Hopefully a Mac
> port should appear during 0.11 development. Upgrading VMMaker risks
> destabilizing this release, and also makes it harder for the ports
> that exist to build VMs to go with the release.
>
> I've now got a working 3.9 development image based on the squeak-dev
> images. I'll include that image along with the release. The exupery39
> versions are the port to 3.9. The only problems have been with tests.
> 23 tests were failing because the bytecodes are all 8 bytes further
> down in the MethodContexts in 3.9. One test was failing due to a bug
> fix in 3.9. Exupery currently works in both 3.8 and 3.9 images but not
> all the tests will pass in both images.
>
> I've moved all the VM code into the VMMaker package, this is to make
> it easier to see when a new VM may be needed. If the VMMaker package
> hasn't changed then none of the VM code will have changed. If it
> hasn't then all the changes were in image side code. Previously there
> is no easy way to see if a new VM is required between different
> versions of Exupery
>
> The release will be built on 3.8, with the old well tested VMMaker
> 3.8b3 VMs and will include a 3.9 developer image with the tests fixed.
> So the release image will be slightly ahead of the release but only
> tests will have changed.
>
> Bryce