[squeak-dev] Brief update on the Squeak 5.3 release schedule

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 16:25:20 UTC 2020


Hi Marcel,

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 7:45 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Eliot.
> 
> > The highBit primitive would then be able to be enableded in 6.0 alpha.
> 
> Hmm... if there is no benefit for 5.3, we could also swap the VM directly after the 5.3 release to be used for all Trunk (6.0alpha) builds.

I would much rather base 6.0 alpha work on a release vm.  The standard work flow is going to be people installing 5.3, changing the update url to trunk, and updating.  It would be a shame if they also had to install a new vm for this to work fully.

> 
> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 20.02.2020 16:37:50 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Hi Marcel,
>> 
>>> On Feb 20, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi all!
>>> 
>>> We are currently packaging RC1, which will be the first (and maybe only) release candidate of Squeak 5.3.
>>> 
>>> Due to recent discussions on the list, here are some infos from yesterday's board meeting:
>>> 
>>> - Release VM will be 201912311458 if there is no veto
>> 
>> Not a veto but a request that we use the latest VMs here:
>> 
>> https://travis-ci.org/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/jobs/652284937
>> 
>> These are VMMaker.oscog-nice.2714/202002190233.  The main reasons to use them are that a) that Nicolas recently got a fast primitive highBit working and b) they are otherwise almost identical to 201912311458.  The highBit primitive would then be able to be enableded in 6.0 alpha.
>> 
>> The Mac Pharo builds fail because of a technicality, but all the Squeak ones are good.
>> 
>>> - No new sources file for 5.3; so slightly bigger changes file compared to 5.2
>>> - No update of the localization files ("locale") due to time constraints
>>> - Same Linux directory structure as in 5.2 (compact bin/shared in Linux bundle; resources/bin/lib/squeak in all-in-one bundle) due to time constraints
>>> - Next Trunk version will be 6.0alpha ;-)
>>> 
>>> So, we want to keep the CI infrastructure as is and push the release out as soon as possible. :-)
>>> 
>>> ***
>>> 
>>> If we overlooked important fixes from the Inbox, please speak up now! :-)
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Marcel
>> 
>> Eliot
>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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