[ANN] Stable Squeak 3.7 Universe

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Jan 30 21:38:57 UTC 2005


Okay, I finally posted an image based on the Stable Squeak 3.7 Universe.

	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3835

This is a good starter image for two groups of people:

# Newbies to Squeak, who want to see what Squeak is like. They can click
on the projects and have them reliably load. Further, they don't care
whether they have the newest packages available - they are happy to play
with the most popular ones.

# Application developers. If you are writing a program in Squeak, as
opposed to working on Squeak itself, then you would like to have a
stable baseline to start from. This image is perfect: it is well defined
and all the packages load successfully.  As a special case, classes that
use Squeak, would find this a good image to start from.

These user groups are not served by our current release process.  Even
if they grab a 3.7 image (or more likely, an even older one), how are
they to access the packages that were available at the time?  3.7u
answers that question: the set of packages is listed in a universe, and
that particular universe is not allowed to be modified except for
extremely important bug fixes.

Comments welcome.  I'll post new bugfix releases over time, but will not
include any major changes.  The Stable 3.7 Universe is "stable" because it
doesn't change, not because it works perfectly.

-Lex



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