Hi bruce

What you are doing is really good.
Now 3.4 should follow 3.2. for the schema. I liked that people can 
download on file
with everything included.

For the compatibility issues between vm and images, I do not know what 
do should be done.


On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Bruce ONeel wrote:

> Hi Stephane and others,
>
> Part of the reason why I build the released packages
> and then promote them on the webpage is so that folks
> can download them and get a reasonable but small
> set with what they need for Squeak.  For 3.2 there
> should be released packages for most common systems
> which contain what you need to get started, ie, vm,
> common plugins, V3sources, and an image/changes combo.
>
>
> I don't do this for non final release, ie, 3.3, and 3.4 up
> to now, since I feel that:
>
> - 3.2 is good enough for most users
> - while squeak is very stable and  alpha releases
> tend to be better than other production versions
> of some other software, beginners should start
> with the released software.
>
> I could construct a readme which contains the
> released date of different files in the package that
> are known to work together.
>
> Is there something else that could be done here
> short of re-versioning VMs to match image versions?
> Or would some readme saying that
>
> - MacVMs from version X to Y are known to work but
> newer ones like work.
> - UnixVMs from usw.
>
> be better?
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> Hi andreas
>>
>> My main concern is that when we will have the final 3.4 version, I
>> would like to have packages that contain v3sources, 3.4.image,
>> 3.4.changes and a ****3.2.8bVM***
>>
>> Just to have a consistency it would be good to have the VM named 3.4
>> this way we can explain fairly easily to newbies. Use this VM ;)
>>
>> I think that having coherent public packages is ***really*** 
>> important.
>> For us internally
>> I do not really care, but I can tell you that for my wife and the guy
>> maintaining her school (not even a VB expert) this is the mess to have
>> 3.2 and 3.4 and not knowing what they can remove.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>
>>> So what exactly signifies a "3.4 VM"?!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   - Andreas
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of Stephane Ducasse
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:06 PM
>>>> To: squeak dev
>>>> Subject: A squeak3.4 VM will be needed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> To simplify the perception of Squeak it would be good to have
>>>> a VM with
>>>> a name 3.4
>>>> when 3.4 will be out. Can we have that?
>>>>
>>>> Stef
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch)
>>>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
>>>>   "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>>>>   different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
>>>>   might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch)
>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
>>   "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>>   different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
>>   might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes