[squeak-dev] Using 3.10.2-build in Release 4.1

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 13:31:15 UTC 2010


2010/3/15 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> On 15.03.2010, at 06:06, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Ralph Boland wrote:
>>> I agree that for 4.0  it is too late to use  3.10.2-build.
>>> However, would it be possible to apply trunk to  3.10.2-build instead of
>>> 3.10.2  for  4.1?  and thus harvest the value in 3.10.2-build?
>>
>> Hardly. 3.10.2-build has MC1.5 which cannot load all the packages from the repository. AFAIK we have all but one fix from 3.10.2-build and that fix is just an enhancement of SystemVersion.
>
> Since we will need to rebase trunk on 4.0 anyway, that might be a good time to upgrade MC? That is:
>
> 1) start with 4.0 image
> 2) load better MC (1.5 + fixes and additions necessary to make trunk updating work)
> 3) try updating from trunk
> 4) if updating breaks, add more fixes to MC 1.5, go to step 1.
> 5) done.
>
> - Bert -
>

If it's doable in reasonnable time and has some technical support, why not.
Since MC itself has been patched during trunk process, that also
deserve some care.

Nicolas



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