[Squeakfoundation]updating to next version after declining alpha

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Mar 21 19:54:54 CET 2003


On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:07:03AM +0300, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Have you tried exporting importing when moving from a 3.5 final to a
> initial 3.6alpha? 

No, I have dozens of projects.

> it's very improbable that the final changes would
> include changes that make your morphs incompatible, compared to
> exporting importing across wider version gulfs.

Very true.  However, this doesn't help; because I am continually
working with the content, all this buys me is a checkpoint that will
rapidly become out of date.

> Otherwise, I do sympathize with your claim in principle, but as long as
> we don't put absolute limits on what final changes might include (no
> do-its, no shape changes, just method definitions, nothing that didn't
> get into version n.m+1), I don't see how the problem can be avoided.

Neither can I.  I'll just stick with an un-updated 3.5 for now for that
image.

Joshua

> Proposals welcome.
> 
> Daniel


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