[ANN] Squeak3.9g-7054...

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Tue Aug 15 00:08:08 UTC 2006


Sorry - it'll come right up. I was away on the weekend and am still on 
my way home (writing this from Starbucks at SEA waiting form my delayed 
flight home).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

astares at gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ok - FFI support is removed. But how to get it back? I havent found
> the Monticello packages on the usual places (PackageLoader/SqueakMap, 
> SqueakSource.com)
> 
> I was lucky to see the mcz still be available from 
> http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a/ but it was not loadable 
> in the first place.
> 
> If one wants to use SQLite, ODBC, ExternalWebBrowser, ... FFI is required. 
> 
> Any newbee loading one of these packages using PackageLoader will run into 
> trouble, declare Squeak as useless and will soon delete Squeak from it's harddisk! 
> This will definitely not help the community to grow - instead we may end
> up with only a few people (most of them burned out like Marcus) :(
> 
> I feel a little bit sad that there is no reliable process behind all that - 
> next time we may decide to remove Morphic in the last minute. 
> 
> There may be reasons for Andreas to get FFI removed (IMHO I agree that FFI
> should not be a part of the base image) but why speak up so late?  
> 
> Dont know how usefull the initial "Release Plan for 3.9" really was ...
> (see http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645)
> 
> However - I'm happy that a new version is out. :)
> Thanks for all the hard work! 
> 
> bye
> Torsten
> 




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