Harvesting (was Re: Dynamic open menus)

Doug Way squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Thu Oct 17 23:19:21 UTC 2002


Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> 
> In fact this is 3.3a and it was never pushed back in 3.2.
> This was a time were I thought I could understand modules :)
> Now I think that their complexity broke the harvesting process which is
> really bad.

To be fair, the new module system was probably not the biggest reason for the harvesting process getting sidetracked.

I should accept much of the blame; I was quite busy this summer with moving to a new house and other things, and didn't have time to spend on harvesting or coordinating the process.  (I was hoping that the harvesting process was mature enough that it could continue for awhile without me, but that was not the case.)  There were other issues too, such as lack of participation by some of the other harvesters, and also there were a couple of harvested bundles of fixes which were not acted on by SqC for some reason.

However, I have more spare time available now, and I'm going to try to kickstart the harvesting process again shortly.  (Göran, Daniel and I have also been working the last couple of weeks on preparing a simple version of SqueakMap to be included in the base 3.2 release, which is a harvesting of sorts I suppose.)

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com



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