Reminder: Please compress all changesets posted to the list

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Mon Sep 3 21:21:35 UTC 2001


This is just a reminder to everyone posting [FIX]es and [ENH]anhcements
to the list:

*Please* compress your changesets as .gz files before attaching them to
your message.

This ensures that the changeset (or .st file) will be decodable and
properly formatted, which makes it easier for the Fixes Review Group to
review the submission for inclusion in the base image.  Plain text
.cs/.st files can have CR/LF issues, tabs converted to spaces, and other
problems.

To compress a changeset in gzip (.gz) format, simply use the "compress"
menu item in the File List window in Squeak.

For more details on how to post submissions to the list, see the Swiki
page:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/398

(Actually, it can sometimes happen that even a gzip compressed changeset
won't make it over to SQFIXES, if you use an oddball attachment encoding
such as appledouble.  This isn't quite as big a deal since they usually
still appear in the other (Yahoo, etc.) archives.  But it's still good
practice to check the SQFIXES site (http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes)
to make sure your messages and attachments are appearing intact.)

- Doug Way
  speaking as a Squeak Fixes Review Group guy :)






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