Whats Happening with 3.10. And how is it going to proceed?

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Tue Jan 9 23:45:09 UTC 2007


Edgar J. De Cleene skrev:
> tim Rowledge puso en su mail :
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>> Ralph, the problem is that during the 3.9 dev cycle the changes file
>> ran out space and was compressed. So all those version histories went
>> away :-(
>>
>> Now , I *do* have a partly complete rework of the source accessing
>> stuff (and bugger all spare time to do anything with it) that could
>> avoid that problem. It would, technically, be plausible to add that
>> to a 3.8.1 image and then load all the packages Marcus built during
>> the 3.9 work (at huge cost to his sanity, sleep and social life) and
>> *not* do the compression. That should get us a 3.9 with all version
>> info intact. A lot of work - and I'm not volunteering to do it! - but
>> you might consider it as an option. The extra good news is that with
>> a more flexible source code access system in place one could consider
>> ways of storing version history off to the side in some manner so
>> that you can have it or not at will. Just one of the benefits of
>> getting away from a string assumption of integer indices into text
>> files as your only source access.
>>
>>
>> tim
>>     
> I suggest some like this to Ralph too.
>
> But first we need sure the Klaus solution for bigger sources files or the
> Jerome proposal in Mantis about this was adopted.
>
> And no forget about Dan's compressed sources, he does a long time ago and
> never was used
>
> When the sources schema was choosed,  then all 3.8.1 -> 3.10 alpha travel
> could be done.
>   
You don't have to start from 3.8.1 just get the latest 3.9 before the 
source compression. It should be on ftp.squeak.org

Karl

> I volunteer to do if Markus , you or some said what the steps are.
> Then , when a complete 3.10 alpha and his history was builded , the image
> should put in official ftp.
>
> Agree ?
>
> Edgar
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