[squeak-dev] Towards a Trunk Release [help needed]

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Sat Feb 20 23:08:18 UTC 2010


At 4:58 PM -0600 2/20/10, Chris Muller apparently wrote:
> > This is part two of two about upcoming releases. Besides the 4.0 release we
>> need to get ready for a release from the trunk. If you look at rather long
>> list of improvements this is a good time to get a release out.
>
>Yes, but there are still some basic things we should try to fix
>shouldn't we?  For example, it's hard to imagine putting out something
>called anything other than "alpha" with the TextEditor home / end keys
>are not working properly.  Things like this are too low-level to allow
>into a final release because people have a connection to software
>through their mouse, keyboard, and have expectations for certain keys
>to behave in the normal ways.
>
>If it were the backspace key, I'm sure we wouldn't release.  To me the
>home and end keys are right up there..

And the text selection works incorrectly last time I looked.

<http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7439>

Ken G. Brown



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