[squeak-dev] Re: Renaming Squeak's system version from
'Squeak*alpha' to 'SqueakTrunk'
Eliot Miranda
eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 17:01:40 UTC 2016
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:05 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 Makes sense.
>
> BTW, what does Rtm stand for?
>
I'd like to know this too. No one seems to have answered this yet. What
does "Rtm" mean? I know what RTFM means. Doesn't seem to fit here ;-)
> And how will minor maintenance releases be marked, which happen from
> time to time?
>
> As Tobias writes
>
> SystemVersion current
>
>
> does not return an 'alpha' suffix, this should be fixed.
>
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 6/22/16, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> > Tobias Pape wrote
> >> On 22.06.2016, at 11:24, marcel.taeumel <
> >
> >> Marcel.Taeumel@
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> we have a system version: "SystemVersion current". For trunk images, it
> >>> used
> >>> to say 'Squeak4.1alpha' or something like it. Right now, it doesn't
> even
> >>> add
> >>> the 'alpha' suffix.
> >>>
> >>> Can we change that to 'SqueakTrunk'? What would break? Right now,
> >>> SystemVersion works with a string rather than major/minor numbers. I
> >>> assume
> >>> that there is some code that parses that string. Metacello does that,
> >>> for
> >>> example.
> >>> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> SystemVersion current should give the following
> >>
> >> for 4.6 Squeak4.6
> >> for 5.0 Squeak5.0
> >> for trunk Squeak5.1alpha (or Squeak5.1trunk if it must be, but
> please
> >> Squeak{stable+1}{dev-indicator})
> >>
> >> Best
> >> -Tobias
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Marcel
> >
> > Okay, we good improve the version number in trunk images and treat them
> as
> > (Git) tags.
> >
> > ...
> > Squeak5.1alpha
> > Squeak5.1beta
> > Squeak5.1rc1
> > Squeak5.1rc2
> > Squeak5.1rtm
> > Squeak5.2alpha
> > Squeak6.0alpha
> > Squeak6.0beta
> > ...
> >
> > Even if we decide to not make a minor release but a major the tag can
> jump.
> > So, any suffix after the version number indicates the trunk stream.
> >
> > Alpha = Open to any code submittions
> > Beta = Feature freeze, bug fixes only
> > Rc1...n = Some bugs fixed, next try
> > Rtm = Full code freeze, will be the one to release
> >
> > Would this work?
> >
> > Best,
> > Marcel
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
> http://forum.world.st/Renaming-Squeak-s-system-version-from-Squeak-alpha-to-SqueakTrunk-tp4902398p4902424.html
> > Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
> >
>
>
--
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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