Squeak Maintainence and Condensed Sources
Hi Marcus,
Thank you for your first reply to Condensed Sources vs. Squeak Maintainence
To restate the essesnce of my concern:
I believe a great deal of code will rot and squeak will become a lot more fragile than it already is if you compress sources now in the process of finalizing 3.9.
I understand your concern about the changes file going over its limit.
I also understand the great deal of effort you and stef have put it to 3.9 to date. And that getting things done has largely relied on your time and effort. Easy to implement solutions would be appreciated I imagine?
First the task of getting a 3.10 with all changes from 3.9 would start with '3.9a with all changes from 3.0' that Doug Way (bless his heart) produced after I said please three times in one post.
Second condensed sources should come at the beginning of an alpha cycle not at an end. So one alternative is to condense sources with the first version of 3.9 alpha (or the 3.8 version just before that name change. And produce a 3.9 with all changes from 3.8 (condensed) source. That would not be as nice but it would at least be acceptable.
The full changes versions have never been for users they have been for developers. Their usefulness is very high or I wouldnt be trying so hard to make my point.
A code history project is both far in the future and risky (it might not come off). Do you really want Squeak maintainence to limp along until when and if it comes about?
The easier you make it for me (and others) to find the bugs the quicker, better, and more permanently we can fix them.
You and Stef have been given arbitrary authority to determine how 3.9 gets made. The consequences of how you choose to use that authority and what decisions you make affects the whole community.
I see several of those decisions as increasing the brittleness of squeak and I am voicing my concerns. I ask only that you do your best to address them.
Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace
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