3.7Full, class side initialization and IRCe

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Oct 25 11:55:46 UTC 2004


Am 24.10.2004 um 18:53 schrieb Doug Way:

>
> On Oct 23, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Frank Caggiano wrote:
>
>> IRCe uses class side initialization to set up its directory 
>> structure. Because its class side initializations aren't done when 
>> someone loads a image with IRCe already installed (as with 3.7Full)  
>> a walkback occurs  on IRCe startup.
>>
>> The current version on SqueakMap (10.2) addresses this problem. 
>> Basically it checks for the correct directory structure each time it 
>> starts up and creates it if it is missing.  (Probably a good thing to 
>> do in any case.)
>>
>> If there is no way to get the fixed version into 3.7Full  what would 
>> be the best way to warn new users and advise them to get the latest 
>> version from SqueakMap?
>
> This is a general problem that we'll probably have to deal with 
> somehow... sometimes the packages released with Full are still going 
> to have bugs, and people should know that if they hit a bug with a 
> given package, they might want to try installing a newer version from 
> SqueakMap.
>
>

The best would be to have a managed "stable release" track with 
constant updates e.g. external packages, important bugfixes.

But right now this is IMHO impossible with the manpower we have... we 
are quite at the limit at making even one real release a year...

    Marcus




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