Confused about current versions... (was Re: 3.8 beta release)

Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Nov 5 10:22:23 UTC 2004


On 05/11/04 04:00, "goran.krampe at bluefish.se" <goran.krampe at bluefish.se>
wrote:

> Hi folks!
> 
> "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>>>> I updated the 3.8alpha unstable image to 3.9alpha
>>>> and it lives in ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.9alpha.
>>> 
>>> Please mark this as as 3.9a-unstable.
>> 
>> Yep, that was done.
> 
> Being one of the Guides I shouldn't be confused of course - but I am. :)
> I have been pretty out-of-the-loop for a while but could someone with
> the insight (Stephane? Marcus? Doug?) quickly explain to me what
> versions we have, how they relate with the streams we have and what
> unstable etc means  - I thought alpha meant unstable per definition.
> 
> A primitive little tree view would be great to have, like below:
> 
> ---3.7------3.8a-----3.8b---
>         \---------3.9a-----
> 
> ...or something similar (the above is just a mock). I think there are
> many out there that currently are as confused as I am. Or perhaps not.
> :)
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
This a new probe of effects of Big Bang.
Hope we could create enough dark matter before each one of us end in a
planet without stars.

Edgar "Advocatus Diaboli"




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list