On 25.07.2006, at 06:15, Peace Jerome wrote:

> Squeak Maintainence and Condensed Sources
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> Thank you for your first reply to
> Condensed Sources vs. Squeak Maintainence
>
> To restate the essesnce of my concern:
>
> I believe a great deal of code will rot and squeak
> will become a lot more fragile than it already is if
> you compress sources now in the process of finalizing
> 3.9.
>
> I understand your concern about the changes file going
> over its limit.
>

It is not a "concern". The changefile is 25MB in 7048, this
is not a "concern", this is a fact. And the other fact is that
the maximum size of the changes file is 32MB.


>
> First the task of getting a 3.10 with all changes from
> 3.9 would start with '3.9a with all changes from 3.0'
> that Doug Way (bless his heart) produced after I said
> please three times in one post.
>

This is technically not possible, as the changes file would
go over it's maximum size.

> Second condensed sources should come at the beginning
> of an alpha cycle not at an end.  So one alternative
> is to condense sources with the first version of 3.9
> alpha (or the 3.8 version just before that name
> change.  And produce a 3.9 with all changes from 3.8
> (condensed) source. That would not be as nice but it
> would at least be acceptable.
>

3.9 is not reproducable from 3.8, so building it on top
of some modified 3.8 is impossible, at least if we plan
to ship it soon at all.

shiping 3.9 with a .changes file of >25MB is impossible, too.

So what do you suggest?


     Marcus




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