[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis 4.0 is released!

Juan Vuletich (mail lists) juanlists at jvuletich.org
Sat May 5 20:05:08 UTC 2012


Quoting "Phil (list)" <pbpublist at gmail.com>:

> Juan,
>
> Thanks... I did manage to recover my changes they were just buried  
> behind a bunch of other stuff I had forgotten I did in the changes  
> log.  I really like the way you've handled packages... perfect for  
> how I've been using Cuis!  And we get version control done right  
> pretty much for free :-)

Yes, that's the idea. To make the most of Git. Then, we get great  
version control for free, and Cuis is as simple as it was before  
supporting packages!

> Thanks
> Phil
>
> On May 5, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> In such cases, you need to go through the changes.log file. All  
>> changes, both belonging to packages and to the base image, are there.
>>
>> Changes.log is the primary resource in case of image crash. This is  
>> exactly the same on Cuis as it is on Squeak and most other  
>> Smalltalk systems. The usual way is to review changes.log as the  
>> first thing after restarting the image, before any additional  
>> changes get appended to it.
>>
>> On the other hand, both change sets and packages only get saved to  
>> disk if and when you save them.
>>
>> Quoting "Phil (list)" <pbpublist at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Juan,
>>>
>>> Nice job on another excellent release!
>>>
>>> I've been playing around with packages and have a question re:  
>>> changesets for packages.  Specifically, I was doing some work in  
>>> some packages that had been saved (but not recently) and managed  
>>> to segfault the VM (my fault).  When I brought back up Cuis and  
>>> browsed the changes (both for the core image and for the packages  
>>> I was working on) there was nothing listed.  Are changesets  
>>> supposed to be working for packages the same way they do for the  
>>> core image?  If so, is there anything I need to do to explicitly  
>>> enable them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Douglas Brebner <squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/04/2012 19:14, juanlists at jvuletich.org wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cuis 4.0 is available at  
>>>>>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html . This is a very  
>>>>>> important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis 3.3, but  
>>>>>> all this time means that there are a lot of big news now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You know, I was just wondering what was happening with Cuis,  
>>>>> congratulations on the release :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here it is, getting better all the time!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everybody for the nice comments.
>>>>
>>>> Please, everybody, spend some time checking the package support,  
>>>> and the GitHub process for external projects. I think this could  
>>>> be a big enabler for Cuis adoption.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>
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>
>



Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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