[squeak-dev] Re: Updating Squeak 4.5 to Squeak 4.6

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Mon Jun 8 16:54:11 UTC 2015


On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 07.06.2015, at 13:56, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
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>> At the moment, 4.5 updates to 4.6 (trunk) just fine. I was wondering how our
>> CI server could generate a working 4.6 release image based on an older
>> release image.
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>> However, I think there are no things running in the CI base image and thus
>> it might just work out fine. :-)
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> We’ve never tried supporting a direct upgrade between releases. If someone wants to spend time on that then fine, but the only disadvantage of doing it via trunk updates is that it runs for a bit longer, right?

One of the easiest way to add this feature is to let the update process 
stop at a given .mcm, and tag some .mcms as releases. That way we can use 
the Trunk repository to upgrade from one release to another.

Levente

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