What is Squeak? (Was Re: A roadmap for 3.9)

Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch
Mon Dec 13 08:00:32 UTC 2004


Josh Gargus wrote:
> You are speaking of the expectation failure of someone who used 3.6 in 
> class, and later downloads 3.7 and finds that Wonderland doesn't work?  
> This is a valid point; this we should strive to avoid this.

Yes.

> It's unfortunate that this bug slipped through, especially since it was 
> an easy one to forsee and prevent.  However, 3.7 had a long release 
> cycle, and there was plenty of time for Wonderland users to notice this 
> extremely obvious bug before the final version was released.  Perhaps 
> the SCG folks should have caught this error, but since they didn't, 
> someone who cares about Wonderland should have.

Exactely. And even now it is probably possible to fix this.
Andreas spoke of packaging problems. Does anybody have a pointer on this?

Hannes




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