[UPDATE] 3.5beta and 3.6alpha

Bruce ONeel edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed Mar 19 15:36:58 UTC 2003


Hi,

Sorry for the delay.

I've created  a 3.5beta and a 3.6alpha directory and put
the image/changes for these release streams in each
directory.

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/
3.5beta
or
3.6alpha

cheers

bruce

Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 12:13 AM, Doug Way wrote, regarding 
> "Re: [ANN] 3.5 release plan":
> 
> > ...
> > So with that in mind, here is the release plan for 3.5, which was 
> > recently finalized on the SqF list:
> >
> > ...
> > Monday, March 17 - Move 3.5 to beta, and create a 3.6alpha update 
> > stream.  The update stream will include the usual choice to proceed to 
> > 3.5beta, or to jump to 3.6alpha.
> 
> I just noticed that this isn't exactly the "usual" choice... the 
> previous choice (for 3.4) for moving to the new alpha stream was 
> actually given when moving to gamma, not beta.  Although I think some 
> earlier releases have offered the choice when moving to beta.
> 
> In any case, there were no objections to that particular release plan 
> item, and I still think it's a good idea to open up the 3.6alpha stream 
> now rather that wait.  So, I went ahead and added the [UPDATE] to offer 
> the choice between 3.5beta and 3.6alpha as planned.
> 
> Keep in mind that 3.5 is on a short release cycle.  (See my post from 
> last Thursday.)  With 3.6alpha, we'll be on a more normal release 
> cycle, which will allow us to start incorporating a lot more fixes from 
> the community, among other things.
> 
> - Doug Way



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