[squeak-dev] Make the trunk stream more discoverable? (was: Docs on Contributing to Squeak)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 21:34:20 UTC 2022


I agree with Dave that switching update streams is too hidden and would be
very convenient to change with "one click".  Whatever UI approach is chosen
to expose it better, please ensure the action ends up also ensuring
whichever one is switched to (trunk) is the top HTTP repository in each
MCWorkingCopy, so that the revisions will be ready to go as well.

 - Chris

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 2:48 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> Dave is suggesting another option in the menu, not a pop-up thing.
>
> I'd also consider making it part of the dialogue that already pops up at
> the end of an update -
>
> In the default downloaded state it shows the Url as 'http://source.squeak.org/squeak60'.
> If we added a button 'update from trunk from now on' this would be
> reasonably obvious and very easy to use.
>
> On 2022-09-28, at 12:04 PM, Thiede, Christoph <
> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
>
> I would deem an extra pop-up too intrusive. Probably many people use a
> stable release image deliberately and only want to receive backported
> patches for that. But maybe we could add a short note into the Transcript
> or the "updated completed" dialog?
>
>
>
> tim
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