[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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