It sounds right


2013/5/2 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>

> I've come to the conclusion that having a whole swathe of
> ReleaseBuilders is wrong. Mostly this comes down to:
> * there is no way of knowing (without a lot of testing) that your
> ReleaseBuilderForSpecialCircumstances still works after that trivial
> refactoring you just did to ReleaseBuilder, and just as importantly,
> * who would want to make a 4.4 release (or 4.3, or 3.11, or 3.10!)
> from a 4.5 image?
>
> There's a slight argument in the case of ReleaseBuilderNihongo and
> ReleaseBuilderSqueakland, but I'd argue that these too don't belong in
> _trunk_.
>
> So I would like to turn ReleaseBuilderFor4dot5 into the one and only
> ReleaseBuilder, delete the old 3.11-4.4 builders, and put
> ReleaseBuilder(Nihongo|Squeakland) into a separate package, loaded in
> during the release process but otherwise not in Trunk. (In other
> words, they go the same route as XML-Parser, Universes and so on.)
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> frank
>
>
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