[squeak-dev] Squeak4.4 RC1 is available

Chris Cunnington smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 01:52:20 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-16 4:16 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.4/Squeak4.4-12303.zip
>
> I suggest we use a consistent naming convention that conveys the
> general ("4.4") and specific ("-12303") version information.  After a
> week has gone by for the community to download and verify it, there is
> no need to deploy yet another (renamed) image, so the "candidate" is
> truly a candidate for release -- the one that was tested.  Then all we
> have to do is [ANN]ounce.
>
> That it is in the "4.4" release directory rather than the "4.4alpha"
> directory, anyone will know this is THE candidate for release.  In the
> past we have tagged alpha images as, e.g., "Squeak4.2alpha-10160.zip"
> -- which could still do for alpha images if we want to be sure the
> names themselves carry a "quality disclaimer" tag.
>
I like that it's small and avoids the problem I had of the menu opening 
up beyond the World. Fits perfectly always.

Chris


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