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From: Jerome Peace <peace_the_dreamer@yahoo.com> Date: August 2, 2008 11:38:49 PM CEDT To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [squeak-dev] Limbo, again! Reply-To: peace_the_dreamer@yahoo.com, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Limbo, again!
3.10.2 is released.
4.0 is on the horizon (and behind schedule).
3.11 or 3.10.3 is where?
The reason I complain is that currently there are fixes available to vexing problems with 3.10.2 (fonts stabilitity, FFI installability). But no easy way for users to get the benifit of them. ( I consider loading the patches individually into the images not to be particularly easy).
Mantis reports: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7140 0007140: Loading FFI renders sockets non-functional. http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6980 0006980: Loading FFI kernel makes NetNameResolver unresponsive
The fact this now has a duplicate indicates how much the fix is needed.
0006577: In sq 7170 loaded projects get unexpected font changes http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6577
I've written a dozen emails about this. http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-June/129332.html [squeak-dev] 3.10.2-rc is missing TTCFont registry fixes M6577FontRegFix-wiz.2.cs
I'd rather spend my time on newer bugs.
So, Randal, if you and the rest of the board can solve the harvesting problem or even improve the current state of affairs. You would have my gratitude.
My question for the board, (particularly in the person of Randal ) is how do we move forward NOW?
Yours in service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace