Hi Craig
Craig Latta craig.latta@netjam.org wrote:
Hi Hannes--
Not having a proper test culture in Squeak leads us to have this kind of funny discussions.
Perhaps you could elaborate as to what you consider a proper test culture.
An example of an emerging test culture
"Brent Vukmer" bvukmer@blackboard.com wrote: I installed the MetaClassBuilderFix SAR in a 3.4gamma image, installed the ClassBuilder test suite, and then ran the ClassBuilder test suite -- 3 out of 3 tests passed.
Cheers
Hannes
From my memory, it seems that the most recent goal of a 3.4 release was to finalize Squeak as a release which primarily occurred under the stewardship of Squeak Central.
Squeak 3.5x and forward were to be the releases under the Guide system. It can be somewhat confusing since it appears that a "Guide" is releasing 3.4. However, the purpose did not change.
While Squeak is not currently under any commercial or business type time pressure, there are people who do base certain events on releases. For example Stephane Ducasse sometimes releases materials (writings) which are based on a certain Squeak release. Some people burn cds for education and other distributions. So having a certain release which is frozen does advantage these people. Sometimes do to their release schedules some time pressure can be asserted.
I hope this makes sense.
Jimmie Houchin
Jimmie Houchin wrote:
From my memory, it seems that the most recent goal of a 3.4 release was to finalize Squeak as a release which primarily occurred under the stewardship of Squeak Central.
Squeak 3.5x and forward were to be the releases under the Guide system. It can be somewhat confusing since it appears that a "Guide" is releasing 3.4. However, the purpose did not change.
Yes, it did sort of work out that way. Scott Wallace from SqC actually handled the bulk of the update-stream additions during 3.4, and he and I worked together on transitioning the update stream duties over to me. We worked through some glitches in the process, but once I had it all working, it seemed to make more sense for me to handle the final steps of the 3.4 release.
While Squeak is not currently under any commercial or business type time pressure, there are people who do base certain events on releases. For example Stephane Ducasse sometimes releases materials (writings) which are based on a certain Squeak release. Some people burn cds for education and other distributions. So having a certain release which is frozen does advantage these people. Sometimes do to their release schedules some time pressure can be asserted.
Good points here.
- Doug Way
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