"Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene" edgardec2001@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
Marcus Denker puso en su mail :
It is of course the decision of the new SqF board what to do with 3.9a, if the board decides that it is complete crap, they should throw it away.
If 3.9 was the good product what you believe, what its the logic of a
3.8.1
release ?
This is standard branching behaviour.
Squeak 3.9's an ALPHA product - if it doesn't have weird bugs, we're not doing enough in the product! It's practically _supposed_ to break and behave weirdly. Then, once we've messed around with new, cutting edge/bleeding edge features, and as we iron out the bugs, 3.9 becomes a beta. Finally, it becomes the new standard version. And we start breaking things all over again in 3.10-alpha.
3.8.1's a bugfix release, so that people using 3.8 don't have to suffer a year's wait, working around bugs that made it through 3.8's beta phase, before they can see bugfixes for 3.8.
frank