On 26.07.2006, at 05:41, Peace Jerome wrote:

>
> Please give consideration to the formula:
> -Create a condensed source version for Squeak-6665
> (either 3.8 final or 3.9a start).
> -Provide the load scripts to produce 3.9final with all
> changes from that source.
> -And have that as a deliveralble for the squeak
> maintenence folks.
>

How would that be different from what we have now?

>
> Also it would probalbly be good to draw others into
> the pieces of this project you don’t strictly have to
> do yourself.  I suspect there are a good number of
> squeakers who have enough expericence to condense
> Squeak-6665.

Doing a "Smalltalk condenseChanges" is not hard... if it would
not be broken in 3.8, that is.

> I don’t know how many can do what you and
> stef do with the load scripts. This might be a good
> excuse to think about how to transfer that knowledge.
> I believe what I have suggested is possible.

Possible, but in what timeframe? And who would work
on it?

You might have seen that not many people care enough to
put real time or money into it... how long do you plan to wait
for whom?

> We need
> to take care of what is needed for right now within
> the present limitation. The question of what to do
> about scalability can be postponed ‘til the future.

The question if if we want to delay the release of 3.9 forever or
not. There are two possible things:
	-> postpone having 3.9
	-> postpone having a full history of 3.9

Which do we do?

     Marcus


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