Squeak 3.8 status

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Wed Jul 28 06:49:52 UTC 2004


Hi all!

tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Andreas Raab wrote:
> > Correct. And by closing alpha early and getting to a release fairly quickly
> > we'd make sure that these changes aren't delayed forever. That's why I was
> > looking at the 2 months range - we basically have this stuff lined up to go
> > (there is even a prototype alpha already which will be the Squeakland plugin
> > image) so let's fold it in, wrap it up, declare victory for now, and put it
> > the new stuff afterwards.
> > 
> I agree; i18n stuff is worth a minor version number, get it in, make 
> sure it works ok on all platforms and for everyone willing to do some 
> testing (and to heck with those unwilling) and close it out.

Yes, we should probably be prepared for quite a lot of small silly
things breaking with this, just a hunch.

> Then I can get on with _really_ breaking stuff for 4.0alpha :->

Yup!
 
> How'd y'all fancy 64bit stuff, new compiled method format, dumping lots 
> of ancient crap, multiple host windows and chocolate flavoured undies? 
> (Whoops, I should add 'Eh' to the end of that since I'm in Canada)

Just pour it on Tim. :)
 
> tim

regards, Göran



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