I don't believe the 3.10 release is in a state that we should consider
complete and final.  My complaint does not concern anything about the
image contents, there are perhaps concerns there as well but I do not
intend to address them here.  What I'm concerned with is the appearance
to someone who is looking for the latest release of Squeak.

My ideal example of a release is 3.8:

http://ftp.squeak.org/3.8/

You find here both basic and full images clearly labelled.  There is a
gzipped sources file.  You also find platform support directories.
There is also an ISO file for a CD which I don't really remember
anything about.

By the way I've had some complaints about gzipped source files and the
lack of support for ungzipping on all platforms.  Perhaps we should
rethink that?

I could also wish for README, LICENSE, and maybe NEWS files.

The 3.9 release

http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/

is not too bad.  They changed the filename convention to the worse in my
opinion.  There is a new sources file (gzipped).  There are also
platform support files although RiscOS is missing (Tim wasn't interested
any longer?).  There is no full image and the image there is not clearly
labelled as Basic.

The 3.10 release

http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/

is not even close.  Firstly this is the development directory and really
there probably should be a new cleaned up directory with only the
release and related files, not the interim releases.  The release file
is named correctly (I brought this up with Edgar seperately).  There is
no platform support, there is no sources file, there is no full image.
There are certainly not my wished for text files.

My comments here of course represent my idea of a release.  I think it's
something we should discuss and try to form a clear policy on so that
future release teams have a target to aim for.

Ken

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