restart 3.9

[stéphane ducasse]

On 12 juin 05, at 1:07, Doug Way wrote:

>
> I suppose at this point it may be best just to start from 3.8 again  
> (as
> you're suggesting), since that includes all of the String rework.

Yes this is what we did

> I'm not sure if Diego's changes would be that hard to optimize or not.
> But in any case, he would need to become actively involved to make  
> that
> happen, and if he's not, well sometimes the community has to move on.

true

> There are a few other miscellaneous small enhancements in the current
> (old) 3.9alpha stream that weren't added to 3.8, that we'll want to  
> make
> sure we don't lose.  (For example, 6535dupAllCtrlAltKeys and a few
> others.)

Alex started to go over all the fix of 3.9 and checked the one that  
did not load

>
> If we do officially decide to start 3.9alpha over again from 3.8final,
> we should probably rename the old 3.9alpha stream to something else
> (which is easy to do in the updates.list file, see
> http://update.squeakfoundation.org/external/updates/updates.list ).
> Maybe name it 3.9alphaold or something.  Kind of like how 3.3beta was
> orphaned, except in this case we'd start 3.9alpha over again.


Ok for me I think that we can simply throw away 3.9alpha images
but reuse the stream and  build from 3.8


>
> - Doug
>
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:56:08 +0200, "stéphane ducasse"
> <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> said:
>
>> I would like to remove the changes of diego for now since nobody will
>> ever want to try 3.9 if this is that sluggish. I asked two times  
>> diego
>> if he would enh them and got no reply so if he wants we can of course
>> reintroduce the changes.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
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>