[squeak-dev] Brief update on the Squeak 5.3 release schedule

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 15:58:31 UTC 2020


Hi Marcel,
this would require a second upgrade of VM just after the release...
Most people will start the development with 5.3 released VM, which means
that we cannot integrate image enhancements.

Le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 à 16:45, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> a
écrit :

> Hi Eliot.
>
> > The highBit primitive would then be able to be enableded in 6.0 alpha.
>
> Hmm... if there is no benefit for 5.3, we could also swap the VM directly
> after the 5.3 release to be used for all Trunk (6.0alpha) builds.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 20.02.2020 16:37:50 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> On Feb 20, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi all!
>
> We are currently packaging RC1, which will be the first (and maybe only)
> release candidate of Squeak 5.3.
>
> Due to recent discussions on the list, here are some infos from
> yesterday's board meeting:
>
> - Release VM will be 201912311458 if there is no veto
>
>
> Not a veto but a request that we use the latest VMs here:
>
> https://travis-ci.org/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/jobs/652284937
>
> These are VMMaker.oscog-nice.2714/202002190233.  The main reasons to use
> them are that a) that Nicolas recently got a fast primitive highBit working
> and b) they are otherwise almost identical to 201912311458.  The highBit
> primitive would then be able to be enableded in 6.0 alpha.
>
> The Mac Pharo builds fail because of a technicality, but all the Squeak
> ones are good.
>
> - No new sources file for 5.3; so slightly bigger changes file compared to
> 5.2
> - No update of the localization files ("locale") due to time constraints
> - Same Linux directory structure as in 5.2 (compact bin/shared in Linux
> bundle; resources/bin/lib/squeak in all-in-one bundle) due to time
> constraints
> - Next Trunk version will be 6.0alpha ;-)
>
> So, we want to keep the CI infrastructure as is and push the release out
> as soon as possible. :-)
>
> ***
>
> If we overlooked important fixes from the Inbox, please speak up now! :-)
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
> Eliot
> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/attachments/20200220/3438c130/attachment.html>


More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list