[Squeakfoundation]Re: releasing SqueakMap (was "One more update for 3.2.1?"... again...)

[John M McIntosh]

Well I should wade in and point out a few things that I've noticed over  
the years.

a) Many users will use 3.xFINAL as the preferred deployment package  
because they feel 3.x+1Alpha is too experimental for them to risk using  
because they are not power-squeak users. In fact I still encounter  
people who are using 2.8 or 3.0 because until recently 3.2 was 3.2gama.  
Mm tonight I was going to download 3.4alpha to some ones desktop but he  
pointed out he didn't run alpha or beta software on his machine because  
it was too risky so I had to promise that 3.4ALPHA wasn't going to hose  
his machine (a true story).

I'd think one should finalize 3.2 and stuff SM into it mostly because  
that's a way for people to distribute content/apps/changesets/? in the  
3.2. environment. I say finalize, although it's final mostly because  
there's a few patchs etc from 3.3 (I think?) I'm sure one can of course  
say this SM is 3.2 or 3.4 or 3.2/3.4 compatible...

Ps zap any thoughts of 3.2.x (tertiary numbers).

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 05:42  PM, Doug Way wrote:

>
> Craig Latta wrote:
>>
>> Hi Doug--
>>
>>> Also, I suppose if the goal is to move 3.4 toward a release
>>> relatively soon (in the next month or two?) then getting the SM
>>> bootstrap into the 3.2 series becomes less urgent.
>>
>>         Why can't we leave 3.2 alone and make 3.4 the venue of  
>> SqueakMap's
>> mainstream debut?
>>
>>         Will someone please summarize the rationale for revisiting a  
>> "final"
>> release here, and for getting into tertiary version numbers?
>
> ....

> Now that we're working toward 3.4, and we've decided that it should be  
> finalized relatively soon, I suppose there wasn't a great need to  
> split off 3.2.  Oh well. :-)  However, there were a lot of  
> 3.2-compatible packages already in place on SqueakMap, so it seemed  
> like SqueakMap should have some sort of debut in the 3.2 world.  (I  
> was thinking in my recent message that since we already split off  
> 3.2.1, we might as well add the SqueakMap bootstrap too, but that's  
> not super-important.)
>
>
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