[squeak-dev] Files in trunk?!

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Fri May 21 13:33:23 UTC 2010


On 05/21/2010 03:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 21.05.2010, at 14:56, Göran Krampe wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys!
>>
>> Ok, perhaps I am just DAFT but what is this:
>>
>> http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/
>> 	Squeak4.1.1.zip          15-Apr-2010 05:15   13M
>> 	Squeak4.1.zip            18-Apr-2010 00:22   13M
>>
>> ...and firing up those images show that 4.1 is 9957 and 4.1.1 is... 9938?
>>
>> IMHO any normal person would think that 4.1.1 is *newer* than 4.1, right?
>>
>> Perhaps this has been discussed at lenght - but this is just confusing.
>
> Indeed. This directory needs serious cleanup.
>
> How about moving all those pre-releases to some place inside the 4.1 directory?
>
>> Also, I can't for my life figure out how to "track trunk". Where do we explain how to get onto trunk? So that I can just hit "Load updates" and be on the edge?
>
> We should put a fully updated Squeak-Trunk.zip there that has the proper update url set already. Anyone up for it? Would be nice to update regularly too.

We could *begin* by explaining on the Download page on squeak.org that:

	How to get onto Trunk:

	1. Download 4.1
	2. Open Preferences, set url to blablabla.
	3. Hit "Load Updates".

That would have done the trick nicely for me.

regards, Göran



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