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

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 22:11:09 UTC 2020


Then would someone please post a link here to the exact VM that will be the
release VM?  I would like to upgrade to it immediately and at least run my
base tests on it.  I don't see any download links at the link Eliot posted.

Thanks.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:01 PM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> Hi Eliot.
>
> Agreed. It would be easier that way. :-)
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 20.02.2020 17:25:32 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> On Feb 20, 2020, at 7:45 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>
> 
> 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.
>
>
> I would much rather base 6.0 alpha work on a release vm.  The standard
> work flow is going to be people installing 5.3, changing the update url to
> trunk, and updating.  It would be a shame if they also had to install a new
> vm for this to work fully.
>
>
> 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)
>
>
>
>
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