Squeak CD-ROM contents available for review

Jesse Welton jwelton at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Mon Jan 22 22:52:54 UTC 2001


Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Edward P Luwish wrote:
> > 
> > 7) All the official SC change sets
> 
> This would be a great thing to have on a local CD... some sort of
> image started at 1.x (whenever the update-from-server thing
> started), then updated with changesets all the way to 2.8.  I've
> often wanted to be able to see whole method histories in the
> versions browser.  The .changes file would be huge, but that's the
> point.
> 
> Any volunteers to create this thing?

I tried to make such an image starting at 2.0, once.  Somewhere along
the line (2.6, maybe 2.7?) three things halted my progress: The
.changes file was too big for the image to handle (overflowing the
fixed-bit-length source pointers, I guess), I couldn't fileIn some of
the changesets (some obscure missing definition somewhere that might
have eluded proper distribution as an update), and the image became
generally unstable (for what reason I have no idea).  Maybe somewhere
along the line I got some corruption because I didn't change VMs at
the right time.  I don't know.  In any event, even apart from the days
of continuous downloading and compiling of updates, this is a major
project.

Much more reasonable is a simple compilation of all the update
changesets, packed into some number of directories or archives.  It
might even be a more modest project to create a tool to browse these
as though they all lived in the .changes file, than to actually put
them there.

-Jesse





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