Towards 3.9.1 . Away from What?
Philippe Marschall
philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Mon May 7 08:06:14 UTC 2007
2007/5/7, Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>:
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> Dear Craig, Jerome, the board et al.
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> Personally, I'm against people deciding on their own to make
> releases with official-sounding names.
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> It does not make sense to use any other name for this project than 3.9.1
> for the following reason.
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> The question that I am putting to the community, as reflected in the
> question I put to squeak-dev, concerning what fixes people want to see in
> 3.9.1, is this:
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> "What does the community want to see in 3.9.1 if/when it exists?"
- TTFontCache fix
- working MCC
- non-transparent SM
- Integer >> #readFrom: fix
> If the question was, "what do you want to see in 3.9plus", then the answer
> would be "anything you like its your image", and that entirely misses the
> whole point.
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> I have put together a forum for discussion and developed some of the tools
> for discussing, planning, specifying, automatically generating, and testing
> a minor release. The content of that release remains entirely open for
> discussion. The password for the site is "viewpoints" so you can dive
> straight in.
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> I am not presenting the community with a release saying this is 3.9.1 take
> it or rename it. Rather I am presenting the community with an extremely
> embryonic process ready to be applied. This process has been sitting there
> doing nothing for a few months, so lets use it!
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> May I reiterate the content is open for discussion, and I think that the
> process is also as visible as it can possibly be. You dont even have to wait
> for me to generate a build you can do it youself from the command line.
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> So then, what if anything would you like to see in an official squeak
> 3.9.1?
>
> best regards
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> Keith
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