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<DIV>Scott Wallace <<A
href="mailto:scott.wallace@squeakland.org">scott.wallace@squeakland.org</A>> gave
us a lesson</DIV>
<DIV>about bug-fixing:</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV>>>By going back to an image that did not exhibit these problems</DIV>
<DIV>>>and then loading updates one at a time, checking for the bug
after</DIV>
<DIV>>>each update, I was able to track down exactly where this
problem</DIV>
<DIV>>>entered into Squeak.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>>>It turns out to have arrived in update
4487SyntaxErrorsOnFileIn-svp...:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The last update of the bug-free 3.0 was
3545. Checking almost</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>a thousand updates to track down a bug
is a very impressive</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>work. Thank you very much,
Scott!<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Dan Ingalls <<A
href="mailto:Dan@SqueakLand.org">Dan@SqueakLand.org</A>> wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>>>I believe it may be the case that MVC users also tend to use</DIV>
<DIV>>>stable releases, and therefore many may still be using 2.8.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Yes, this sounds convincing to me. I am still using 2.7 for all</DIV>
<DIV>of my MVC stuff and it is only now that I began to bring it</DIV>
<DIV>to 3.2. The release quality of 2.7 was really excellent and I</DIV>
<DIV>think it was for a long time the most beautiful release for MVC</DIV>
<DIV>users.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dan also asked:</DIV>
<DIV>>>What release do you use now?</DIV>
<DIV>2.7 for MVC </DIV>
<DIV>3.2 alpha (last update: 4599) for Morphic<BR><BR>>>Do you plan to
move to 3.2 in the near future?</DIV>
<DIV>Yes, of course. I will do that now, during my summer</DIV>
<DIV>holidays.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Scott is seemingly surprised that there are almost no MVC</DIV>
<DIV>users. I am surprised too, but I think I remember that two
years</DIV>
<DIV>ago there was some discussion about how to bring users to</DIV>
<DIV>Morphic. The decision to ship Squeak 3.0 with Morphic as the</DIV>
<DIV>default user interface obviously brought most user to Morphic</DIV>
<DIV>and that is a beautiful success.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Greetings,</DIV>
<DIV>Boris</DIV></BODY></HTML>