[squeak-dev] [ANN] Squeak 5

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Thu Aug 13 11:11:00 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:08 PM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/13/15, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:15 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> Hi All,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>     Fabio's kindly done most of the changes.  But some questions
>>> >> remain
>>> >> for
>>> >> more general discussion.  See below.
>>> >>
>>> >> Fabio,  thanks so much for doing this, and so quickly!
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Eliot Miranda
>>> >> <eliot.miranda at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi All,
>>> >>>
>>> >>>     who will update http://squeak.org/downloads/ to include the 5.0
>>> >>> release?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> a) I suggest that the 5.0 all-in-one have a line in the left-hand
>>> >>> table
>>> >>> that includes the 4.6 release and that it precede the 4.6 release in
>>> the
>>> >>> list.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Done.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> b) the Trunk link points to TrunkImage.zip which contains a non-Spur
>>> >>> image.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> So this is the biggie.  What should we do?
>>> >>
>>> >> - add a Trunk 5.0 build with a different link?  (Noooooo)
>>> >>
>>> >> - change  http://build.squeak.org/job/SqueakTrunk to build what it
>>> >> says
>>> >> (Yessss please, who can do this?)
>>> >>
>>> >> - add a Squeak 4.6 build job?  Is that even worth it any more
>>> considering
>>> >> 4.6 is released and stable?  If it is then what should it build?
>>> >> David?
>>> >
>>> > I think that if we have a job called "SqueakTrunk" then it should be
>>> > building the actual current trunk image, which is a 5.0 Spur image.
>>> >
>>> > Ideally I would suggest renaming the current "SqueakTrunk" job to
>>> > something like "SqueakTrunk_Old".
>>>
>>>
>>> "Old" things sometimes get mistreated (e.g. accidental deletion,
>>> confused with other "old" things over years.)
>>> How about something topical like SqueakTrunk_V3Legacy?
>>> cheers -ben
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Or SqueakTrunkV46?
>
> +1
>
> To call is 'legacy' just a few weeks after the release of Squeak 4.6
> sound premature ....
>

Whoops, sorry :)
cheers -ben


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