It would be neat to be able to take the fixes in 4.1 until 4.2 comes out, and (assuming you haven't touched system classes) point your updates at 4.2 upon release without too much trouble. 



On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> On 20.04.2010, at 05:03, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> On 4/19/2010 5:18 PM, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
>>> Ok, bad phrased question. Real question is: setting preferences to
>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk will keep compatibility with future
>>> updates of squeak41 ???
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>> That's pretty much a given. It would be weird to have incompatible changes between 4.1 fixes and current trunk development. Not impossible but highly unlikely.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
> 
> Well, maybe I misunderstood the question, but I expect to see changes in trunk that you would not want to see in 4.1. It's our current stable release (btw, someone should update Wikipedia) so if packages are posted to the 4.1 repository, they would not simply be taken from trunk. They would be carefully selected, high-impact fixes only.
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> I guess I don't know what "compatibility" means in this discussion ...
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> - Bert -
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