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

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Feb 21 16:24:32 UTC 2020


Hi Marcel,


>> On Feb 21, 2020, at 6:33 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eliot, hi Nicolas. :-)
> 
> Which one should it be? (https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog)
> 
> 202002190239
> 202002190233
> 202002190019
> 202002172228
> 202002150156

2714/202002190233 

> ...
> 
> Best,
> Marcel                                                                                             
>> Am 20.02.2020 23:28:51 schrieb Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>:
>> 
>> Sorry, but I lost track of the recent VM changes.
>> 
>> Could both Nicolas and Eliot please confirm that 202002190233 is the correct version that we should use in the upcoming Squeak release?
>> 
>> Once confirmed, I will do another VM release, which we can then use for building our bundles.
>> 
>> Fabio
>> 
>>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 7:01 pm, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Eliot.
>>> 
>>> Agreed. It would be easier that way. :-)
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Marcel
>>>> Am 20.02.2020 17:25:32 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> 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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