Diverging version numbers (Re: [squeak-dev] Seaside in Squeak4.4-12770)

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 11:25:30 UTC 2013


On 5 June 2013 12:06, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Frank Shearar wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the version string though - even in 4.5 the update
>> number's only #12637.
>
>
> The cause of the problem is that you removed some packages from the image
> used by Jenkins (without bumping the version of the VersionNumber package,
> which is used for ensuring monotonity of the Trunk's version number).
> People who are updating older images have those packages, so the version
> number is higher.

I'm trying, and failing, to find any documentation so that I don't
repeat this messup. I certainly removed packages, but I removed them
from a 4.5 image, hence off http://source.squeak.org/trunk and not
http://source/squeak.org/4.4.

frank

> I think there's no easy solution for this issue, because the original idea
> was to make packages unloadable, instead of unloading them and make them
> loadable.
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> frank


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