[ANN] 7061 = Squeak 3.9 final

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Mon Sep 25 23:22:19 UTC 2006


Well I've just downloaded this and I'm very disappointed. I  
appreciate how much work is involved and how many sleepless nights it  
must have caused Marcus and Stef but....

This simply isn't an image to release to the general public. The two  
Workspaces need to be edited and de-typo'd.

There are now two preferences tools, neither of which handle font  
settings or display setings. If one is going to replace an old tool  
with a new one it ought to noticeably improve upon it. And, of  
course, actually *replace* it.

Why is a package of omnibrowser included but not, so far as I can  
tell, hooked up to use? Not to mention it appears to be non- 
functional; on my machine (a very fast dualcore mac) I opened an  
OBSystemBrowser with #openOnClass: Object, pressed the 'hierarchy'  
button and got bored after more than a minute of waiting for a new  
browser.

What are
	Morphic-Models
	39Deprecated
	FlexibleVocabularies-Info
	ScriptLoader
there for?

It may be a good start but it really isn't ready to be a new release.  
Just pushing something out because you're bored or tired or along  
time has passed is not sensible. All it does is make more, nastier,  
work later.

tim
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