taking 3.4a to beta

Craig Latta craig.latta at netjam.org
Thu Nov 21 22:16:57 UTC 2002


Hi Ned, Scott--

	Scott writes:

> > My sense is that 3.4a can now reasonably be thought of as
> > feature-complete and pretty darned robust, so it would seem that we
> > are right on track for releasing 3.4/final before the end of the
> > year.

	Ned responds:

> There are lingering problems with network downloads (i.e. not
> detecting 404's when downloading HTTP for SqueakMap). Few of the
> places where HTTP (or other) downloads are happening check return
> values; I wonder whether we should raise an exception (rather than
> seeing random exceptions later related to returning nil or returning
> the error text if any).
> 
> We should fix this before declaring beta, IMO.

	These sounds like bugs, not missing features, so, in the absence of any
other missing features (i.e., vital missing SqueakMap features), I
suggest moving to beta.


	thanks,

-C

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