3.8 beta release

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Nov 3 11:29:51 UTC 2004


Hi mike

I tried also with 3.8a-5987 and I got the same problem.

Stef


On 2 nov. 04, at 19:10, Michael Rueger wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> with a little delay we are proud to finally announce 3.8 beta and 3.9 
> alpha.
>
> Please also read the part of magic incantation you may need to do in 
> some images where change sets weren't registered properly.
>
> A little warning ahead: updating will take a looong time and as part 
> of the process recode your changes file to UTF-8.
>
> What we have in this release and how you can get there:
>
> 3.8beta
> --------
> updating through the 3.8alpha stable stream will get you all updates 
> and prompt you for advancing to 3.8beta.
>
> This version includes m17n, all squeakland fixes and enhancements and 
> the all updates from 3.8 unstable except the UI and parse tree 
> changes.
>
> 3.9alpha
> --------
> updating through the 3.8 unstable will get you automatically to 3.9 
> alpha. Updating through 3.8 and switching to 3.9alpha will get you 
> there as well.
>
> This version includes all of 3.8 beta plus the UI and parse tree 
> changes.
> 3.9alpha stable and unstable are initially the same.
>
>
> What's next:
> ------------
>
> we will now go through the mantis bug list and see which fixes are 
> there and which of the remaining (unfixed) bugs definitely need to be 
> fixed for 3.8 stable. If you have a pet bug and/or fix please make 
> sure it is registered on mantis (http://bugs.impara.de).
>
> Kudos once again to all who contributed to this release, Yoshiki, 
> Diego, Bert, Andreas, Marcus, Ned, Scott, und so many others.
>
> magic incantation:
> ------------------
> You need to invoke this if you get "this name is already in use" while 
> trying to update. Somehow broken images (with not properly registered 
> change sets) ended up at the download site:
>
> ChangeSorter allChangeSetNames do: [:name |
>   name startsWithDigit ifTrue:
>     [SystemVersion current registerUpdate: name initialIntegerOrNil]].
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>




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