On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:33:45PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> On 20-03-2014, at 3:46 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 20 March 2014 20:56, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We should officially announce version 4.5 of Squeak.
> >> 
> >> So!  Let it be known!  Squeak 4.5 is released!
> >> 
> >> Home page is here:  http://www.squeak.org
> >> 
> >> 4.5 release notes are here:  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6193
> > 
> > Hooray!
> 

Thanks Chris, well done indeed! 


> Indeed; I was about to add a note to PlanetSqueak etc but I see that we need to populate the ftp.squeak.org/4.5 directory a bit more fully before pointing people at it. We could do with the image/changes separate to the all-in-one, along with whatever ought to go into the platform directories. And there ought to be a RISC OS one at some point...
>

I think this is just a matter of copying the final Squeak4.5-13680.zip from the
ftp.squeak.org/4.5alpha/ into ftp.squeak.org/4.5/ so yes, someone with write
access to the server should please do that.

I'm less sure how we should handle the mac, unix-linux, win, and riscOS subdirectories.
Traditionally, we have had platform maintainers who individually took full
responsibility for each of these platforms, so it was simply a matter of asking
those responsible persons to do the right thing for each platform.

We now have Ian and Tim (yay!) holding up the unix and riskOS branches, but
we have gaps in Mac and Windows platform ownership, and we also have Eliot
doing the development of the performance VMs for a range of platforms, with
these being what we use in the all-in-one for general distribution.

Overall I am inclined to think that ftp.squeak.org should have the all-in-one
as a simple and portable way to get folks started with a new 4.5 download,
and we should pointers to squeakvm.org for folks interested in obtaining an
appropriate VM for their platform.

Oh, by the way, we need someone with SqueakMap access to update the SqueakMap
server so that package maintainers can declare their packages to be compatible
with Squeak 4.5. And we need someone to start nagging the package maintainers
to update their packages in SqueakMap. Not that I really want to be nagged
about it, just sayin' ...

Dave