Stability of Squeak

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Tue Aug 14 16:43:23 UTC 2001


Edmund Ronald wrote:
> 
> 3.0 Image, 3.0Alpha8MT is probably the VM ? on Mac TiBook, MacOSX 1.0.4.
> the OS was probably at 1.0.1 when the freezes occured.
> 
> And, thank you for making my point nicely: It works for YOU. It works for
> anyone who has got into using it. This is what I mean when I say (see
> my post) "extremely stable in an established use pattern".
> 
> However, it will crash on newbies. One of the first things I did when I
> joined this list was enquire how to make the tutorial code work on the
> then current release. The incompatibilities in posted tutorials will also
> only be spotted by newbies. So, please get my point: Until Squeak is rich
> enough to afford a quality assurance team, newbies are your best testers !
> Use them !

In the 3.1alpha stream there is a new feature that let the debugger send 
a bug message with the stack and system info to the mailing list. 

Karl




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