[Squeakfoundation]updating to next version after declining alpha

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Fri Mar 21 21:00:19 CET 2003


Hmm, do you have any ideas on how we can do this? it seems to me that
two ideas here are in conflict -
1. "I should get backported fixes into 3.5 that worked in 3.6, without
moving into 3.6 while it's alpha"
2. "When 3.6 becomes gamma, I should be able to upgrade 3.5 after all"

You can do either one of those manually now, by simply proceeding up
only one of the upgrade paths, but I don't have ideas on how you can
have both. 

On another note, some people might ask "why do you keep important stuff
in your image anyway?"

Daniel

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I originally posted this to squeak-dev, but it probably should have
> been sent here.
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> I have a comment about Squeak version releases that may or may not
> have been discussed already.  My concern relates to beginning a new
> alpha branch before the previous version is finalized.  This happens
> every time, and I think that it is unavoidable.  
> 
> I currently have a 3.5 beta "living" image where I keep a lot of 
> important information.  I don't want to advance it to 3.6 alpha 
> because I can't afford to mess it up.  So, I chose to only receive
> the final fixes for the 3.5 release.  However, some day 3.6 will
> be stable enough to switch to.  My problem involves the uncertainty
> about being able to successfully update from a 3.5 final release 
> (which may include updates after the choice about whether to go
> 3.5 or 3.6).  
> 
> Can we manage the update streams in such a way that we can be certain
> that such updates are possible?  In most cases, it probably works fine
> on its own.  However, I think that it is important for users to be 
> able to rely on this invariant.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Joshua
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