Re: 3.6 final release preparation

Doug Way <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 05:08 AM, [email protected] 
> wrote:
> > Hi Doug and all!
> >
> > Doug Way <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [SNIP]
> >> Let me know if I forgot anything. :-)
> >
> > Sounds dandy! Two things:
> >
> > 1. Posted a FIX just now that... well, it is called findStringFix. Are
> > we too late in the game? It really does remove a potential scary bug in
> > SM.
> 
> Hmm, perhaps a bit too late.  It sounds like this is more of a 
> potential bug, not one that we've actually seen for sure?  I don't 
> really know, though.

Yeah. Well, I talked to Craig on IRC and we came to the conclusion that
even though the bug is there and can pop up if the search String ends up
on a buffer boundary (buffer size is 2000) we can't say for sure that we
have been bitten by it.

So we can simply ignore it. I could include the new versions of these
methods as "loose methods" in 1.09 of SqueakMap - not sure what we think
about that though. Or I could rewrite the methods and put them somewhere
else than in StandardFileStream of course - but that feels like a hack.

Note: The thoughts above are related to the fact that people will
download 3.6 and possibly upgrade SqueakMap to 1.09, but they will
perhaps not load updates (to get the FIX through the updatestream).

> > 2. How about a IRC-release-party?! I think it would be fun. You Doug
> > could post an IRC-invitation to the list with a time interval where
> > people can hang out on the Squeak-channel, pop the bubbly water and
> > simply chat a while.
> 
> That might be a good idea!  Sometime this weekend would be good... 
> maybe Sunday?  Ideally it should be immediately after the squeak.org 
> downloads page is updated to 3.6.  I'm still coordinating things, 
> though, and I want to make sure the release actually happens before 
> announcing the release party. ;-)

Cool. If it is ok with you then it will be best if you announce it on
squeak-dev when you know the exact moment we have "take off". Then pick
an interval for the party like -6 hours -> +6 hours or something. :-)

regards, Göran