On Wed, 07 May 2003 09:53:42 -0700 Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> So -
>> Write a small app that shows a list of changesets, html-scrapted off bug
>> fixes, and when you choose one, uses OSProcess to activate another
>> Squeak on a clean image, and load the changeset in question into that
>> image.
>Suggestion - change the sqfixes filter/whatever to put the changes
>files(s) and messages (if at all possible since they count as
>documentation) somewhere that is accessible as an FTP site; since Squeak
>has easy access to FTP it ought to be possible to read, file-in and even
>write back.

Well, how about a radical solution: put *all* bug fixes in the (or an) update stream, but in an inactive form. Perhaps simply gzip+base64 the change set plus documentation and install this in some sort of ProposedChanges class. Then you can use any current image to easily extract and test any proposed fix/enhancement. If you put them in *the* update stream, it might be nice to add a preference to skip these kinds of updates since they might be large and uninteresting.

Cheers,
Bob