Proposal for Squeak 3.8 release schedule

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Thu Oct 14 21:52:17 UTC 2004


Am 14.10.2004 um 22:59 schrieb Doug Way:

> My comment about the updates.list file was mostly just pointing out the
> potential file-locking issue. :-)  As long as we don't have two people
> writing to the file around the same time, we should be okay.  (The
> original update-broadcasting mechanism doesn't work anymore, although
> it'd probably be easy to fix, and probably should be fixed.

Hmm, works for me, at least in the Squeakland release.

>  For myself, when I was posting 30 updates at a time, it was easier to 
> edit the
> updates.list file by hand.  But since we now have a number of people
> posting updates, if everyone does it by hand, there's a better chance 
> of
> having write conflicts.)  Although perhaps that was your point about
> keeping the 3.9 stuff in unstable for a while longer, since the 
> unstable
> stream is a different physical file (SqCupdates.list).

Actually, it's Unstableupdates.list - SqCupdates.list should probably 
get removed from the server.

- Bert -




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