[BUG?]Upgrading 3.2 to 3.3alpha

Roger Vossler rvossler at qwest.net
Sat Aug 31 05:08:10 UTC 2002


Hi Dan,

I thought that Squeak Central was in control of the update process. Who 
exactly is the maintainer
of the 3.2 fork and why did this fork take place? Is Squeak Central now 
out of the loop?

Cheers, Roger.....

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 07:57 PM, Dan Ingalls wrote:

> "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com>  asked...
>
>> I seem to be unable to upgrade the most current published version of 
>> Squeak 3.2 to 3.3.  Am I missing something?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 	1. Take a raw 3.2 image
>> 	2. DoIt:  "SqueakVersion setImage"
>> 	3. Help -> updates
>>
>> This loads a few updates, but then stops on or about update 4681.
>>
>> Please advise where I am missing the boat, or what I should do to 
>> effect the update to current alpha using the updaters.
>
> A choice was offered, at update #4653, to advance to 3.3 and the 
> maintainer of the 3.2 fork chose NO.  There are no provisions for 
> advancing to 3.3 after that point.
>
> It's true that this differs from most earlier releases, because 3.2 
> continued to evolve after the fork, rather than merely receiving a few 
> fixes that might have allowed for later advancing to 3.3.
>
> It is conceivable that you could fool your system into thinking that 
> it was at update 4653 (remove or rename all changeSets after this #), 
> *then* change your version and go forward from there, but I have no 
> certainty that it would be successful.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 	- Dan
>
>




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