lex

did you publish the script you used to create these images?

Stef


On 30 janv. 05, at 22:38, Lex Spoon wrote:

> Okay, I finally posted an image based on the Stable Squeak 3.7 
> Universe.
>
> 	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3835
>
> This is a good starter image for two groups of people:
>
> # Newbies to Squeak, who want to see what Squeak is like. They can 
> click
> on the projects and have them reliably load. Further, they don't care
> whether they have the newest packages available - they are happy to 
> play
> with the most popular ones.
>
> # Application developers. If you are writing a program in Squeak, as
> opposed to working on Squeak itself, then you would like to have a
> stable baseline to start from. This image is perfect: it is well 
> defined
> and all the packages load successfully.  As a special case, classes 
> that
> use Squeak, would find this a good image to start from.
>
> These user groups are not served by our current release process.  Even
> if they grab a 3.7 image (or more likely, an even older one), how are
> they to access the packages that were available at the time?  3.7u
> answers that question: the set of packages is listed in a universe, and
> that particular universe is not allowed to be modified except for
> extremely important bug fixes.
>
> Comments welcome.  I'll post new bugfix releases over time, but will 
> not
> include any major changes.  The Stable 3.7 Universe is "stable" 
> because it
> doesn't change, not because it works perfectly.
>
> -Lex
>