Scott Wallace scott.wallace@squeakland.org gave us a lesson about bug-fixing:
By going back to an image that did not exhibit these problems and then loading updates one at a time, checking for the bug after each update, I was able to track down exactly where this problem entered into Squeak.
It turns out to have arrived in update 4487SyntaxErrorsOnFileIn-svp...:
The last update of the bug-free 3.0 was 3545. Checking almost a thousand updates to track down a bug is a very impressive work. Thank you very much, Scott!
Dan Ingalls Dan@SqueakLand.org wrote:
I believe it may be the case that MVC users also tend to use stable releases, and therefore many may still be using 2.8.
Yes, this sounds convincing to me. I am still using 2.7 for all of my MVC stuff and it is only now that I began to bring it to 3.2. The release quality of 2.7 was really excellent and I think it was for a long time the most beautiful release for MVC users.
Dan also asked:
What release do you use now?
2.7 for MVC 3.2 alpha (last update: 4599) for Morphic
Do you plan to move to 3.2 in the near future?
Yes, of course. I will do that now, during my summer holidays.
Scott is seemingly surprised that there are almost no MVC users. I am surprised too, but I think I remember that two years ago there was some discussion about how to bring users to Morphic. The decision to ship Squeak 3.0 with Morphic as the default user interface obviously brought most user to Morphic and that is a beautiful success.
Greetings, Boris
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