[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak4.2-10856-beta.zip

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Fri Jan 7 08:31:11 UTC 2011


On 1/6/2011 11:54 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> I like a welcome workspace. More than one is annoying to me though. That's just me though. I can see the "clean desktop" argument, and would probably prefer it, if I didn't feel that we were experiencing community growth. I think the welcome workspace is friendly to new folks.

+1.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

> On Jan 6, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Chris Muller<asqueaker at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Good catch.  Am I reading an implicit suggestion in your note to close
>> the window too, so that Squeak 4.2 launches with an empty desktop?  I
>> could appreciate that "clean" look.  What is your preference about
>> that?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Andreas Raab<andreas.raab at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>> One comment: The "Welcome to Squeak 4.2" workspace is still all 4.1 content.
>>> I think it would be best to simply copy the "What's New" section into that
>>> workspace.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   - Andreas
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2011 6:33 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all, I heard back from Andreas, he is fine with pushing the
>>>> FloatMathPlugin enhancements to 4.3.
>>>>
>>>> I loaded my latest version of KernelTests from the inbox which removes
>>>> FloatConsistencyTests, and have just uploaded a first 4.2 beta to
>>>>
>>>>     ftp://ftp.squeak.org/4.2/
>>>>
>>>> We can try to go-back in the trunk stream so that a continuous update
>>>> could work from a 10779 image, but I'm really not sure what needs to
>>>> be done to accomplish that or whether that's important.  We have this
>>>> beta image from which we can at least update forward.
>>>>
>>>> We do still have some issues in the test-suite that we need help with!
>>>>
>>>> Please also test your applications with this image over the next weeks
>>>> to ensure they will be compatible with this new release, and also
>>>> flush out any final problems.
>>>>
>>>> We're getting there, thanks to all for your help.
>>>>
>>>>   - Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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