[squeak-dev] [ANN] Changing the Trunk version from 6.0alpha to 5.2alpha

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun May 27 18:36:36 UTC 2018


> On 27.05.2018, at 20:16, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, the pre-release VM has the bug described in issue #260: https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/260 .


Yea, i haven't had the time to fix that one.
It's actually a plugin not the vm per se…

	-t

> 
> Levente
> 
> On Sat, 26 May 2018, Fabio Niephaus wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 6:40 PM Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
>>      Hi,
>> 
>>      So it was just race condition. :-)
>> 
>>      Thank you for fixing the upload!
>> 
>>      I saw that the 5.2alpha build contains the VM with the version 201804030952, which is not the latest version on Bintray (and interestingly is not even in the versions list on
>>      https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog).
>> The VMs on Bintray are removed after a few weeks to save storage costs. More importantly, these VMs are considered bleeding edge and I don't think it's a good idea to test a bleeding edge Squeak image with a
>> bleeding edge VM. If something is broken, it can be really hard to tell if the problem is in the VM or in the image.
>> The VMs that ship with the current 5.2alpha builds are from the latest VM pre-release which you can find at [1]. Unfortunately, the latest stable VM release [2] is from 2016.
>> Fabio
>> [1] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/201804030952
>> [2] https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/latest
>>  
>> 
>>      Should testing happen with this VM or with the latest from Bintray?
>> 
>>      Cheers,
>>      Bernhard
>> 
>>      > Am 26.05.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>:
>>      >
>>      > Dear all,
>>      >
>>      > TravisCI just generated the first set of 5.2alpha artifacts including updated VMs which are now available at [1]. This URL actually links to the same folder you can find at [2].
>>      > Although recent TravisCI builds have passed, this folder was empty because of an issue with the updater which Marcel and I just resolved.
>>      > Therefore, all new artifacts are now uploaded to the 5.2alpha directory and should show up at [1]/[2].
>>      >
>>      > Happy testing!
>>      >
>>      > Fabio
>>      >
>>      > [1] http://files.squeak.org/trunk/
>>      > [2] http://files.squeak.org/5.2alpha/
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 1:20 PM H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>      > Hi Bernard
>>      >
>>      > A solution which works well for the meantime is to take early May download from
>>      >
>>      > http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/
>>      >
>>      > And update from within the image.
>>      >
>>      > One of the updates is the rename to 5.2alpha. The result is attached.
>>      >
>>      > Regards
>>      > --Hannes
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > On 5/26/18, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
>>      > > Hi,
>>      > >
>>      > > I wanted to get a current trunk image to help testing the new release.
>>      > > Normally, I go to http://squeak.org/downloads/ and click the trunk link
>>      > > http://files.squeak.org/trunk/. This leads to an empty directory. I guess
>>      > > this might be an unintended consquence of the rename.
>>      > >
>>      > > Are you going to rename the folder and files in
>>      > > http://files.squeak.org/6.0alpha/ as well?
>>      > >
>>      > > Best,
>>      > > Bernhard
>>      > >
>>      > >> Am 24.05.2018 um 10:44 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de>:
>>      > >>
>>      > >> Hi, there.
>>      > >>
>>      > >> We are going to change the current version number of the Trunk to
>>      > >> "5.2alpha" to denote our plans for the upcoming Squeak release. After
>>      > >> several discussions within the board and with our release manager Edgar,
>>      > >> we came to conclusion that it makes sense to postpone the "6.0" a little
>>      > >> bit to finish some bigger concerns such as the use of ephemerons and Etoys
>>      > >> clean-up.
>>      > >>
>>      > >> Best,
>>      > >> Marcel
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