[squeak-dev] MC 1.5 in trunk (was: Using 3.10.2-build in Release
4.1)
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Mar 15 14:25:05 UTC 2010
On 15.03.2010, at 14:31, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>
> 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
Indeed. And someone would have to step forward to actually Do It. Several people expressed interest in having Trunk use MC 1.5. Now is your chance!
- Bert -
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