Am 05.11.2004 um 08:00 schrieb goran.krampe at bluefish.se:

> 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.

You almost got it ;-)

Since it's hard to draw in ASCII please excuse this blatant abuse of 
bandwidth ;-)

This is the official history, the main line:

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Nice and clean, eh? Taking unstable into account you get this:

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And this is how the Squeakland branch fits into the scheme:

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Hope that helps ... sometimes an image *is* worth a thousand words ;-) 
And thanks to Ned for his Connectors, once again.

- Bert -