[squeak-dev] Re: Revising Squeak 7175 (3.10.1)
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Sat May 31 08:16:40 UTC 2008
On Sat, 31 May 2008 04:09:39 +0200, Jerome Peace wrote:
> Revising Squeak 7175 (3.10.1)
I think you describe your appreciation/critique as if the issues which Ken
was concerned about can be fixed and uploaded to the public download area
until everybody is happy with them :(
Can you reformulate so that the [main] concerns which Ken raised in his
message on Wednesday are addressed, if possible one-by-one, TIA.
/Klaus
> Hi Ken, Hi Edgar, Hi Klaus,
>
> First appreciation.
> It is very good to see fixes to 3.10 come out
> and to see a project run to schedule.
>
> Second appreciation in the form of critism.
> I just downloaded the revised 3.10.1.
> The first thing it tells me is that it is broken
> and that I should click for an update and save the image.
>
> Everybody who down loads squeak must do this.
>
> Does something about this sound wrong to you?
>
> A revision to fix mistakes should not need user interaction
> to fix mistakes made to the revision in the last step.
>
> First, you wonder why the releasers just did not
> do those two steps before the release.
>
> Second, if you look into the problem you will see that
> updating to 7175 from the update stream avoids the mistake entirely.
> The phantom catagory is not there.
> The downside of doing it this way is that the changes file is not
> condensed.
> So why not add a changeset with postscript to do only that?
> Then release the result?
>
> Yours in service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace
>
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