[squeak-dev] Towards a Trunk Release [help needed]

Ronald Spengler ron.spengler at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 18:45:43 UTC 2010


+1, let's not call it 3.11.

3.12 is a fine version number if we don't call it 4.1. Ambiguity is evil.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 February 2010 21:07, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19 February 2010 20:19, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Whatever you call the trunk release, in my opinion it should not be
>>>> called 3.11. There is too much out there already talking about 3.11 and it's
>>>> history, and if you call the proposed trunk release 3.11, there will
>>>> continue to be confusion generated far into the future.
>>>>
>>>> eg:
>>>> <http://installer.pbworks.com/311>
>>>>  <http://installer.pbworks.com/Squeak311>
>>>>  This is the Proposal to the board which was to my knowledge accepted.
>>>>  <http://installer.pbworks.com/Squeak311Proposal>
>>>>
>>>> In my view, the better way forward would be restore the ftp directory
>>>> structure to what it was: 3.11 and its previous contents still called 3.11
>>>> and not pointing to trunk, add a readme in the 3.11 directory saying 3.11
>>>> was never a proper official release and be done with it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> What version number you suggesting then for trunk release?
>>> And since original 3.11 effort is abandoned, and there no any official
>>> releases, what images can be called 3.11 then?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There's no need to have an official and final 3.11, in the same way there
>> was never an official 3.3. It is pretty clear to me that trunk is not 3.11!
>> I guess 3.12 is a reasonable number. But it would be even better if it could
>> be called 4.0, if the relicense process is done by then.
>>
>
> Yes. I think this will be the best choice. For historians it would be
> less confusing what call '3.11' effort then.
> So, i suggesting
> a) trunk release will be either 3.12 , or 4.1 (depending on b))
> b) 4.0 is 3.10 , released under MIT license.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>



-- 
Ron



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