[Cuis-dev] Beta for Cuis 7.0 stable, Rolling Release is 7.1

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Ken,

These considerations may become relevant after we review which packages 
we intend to make available for stable releases. For Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev 
we encourage and support developing all kinds of experimental packages. 
Some of these are not mature enough. Some may never be.

I think it is important to start by selecting the list of packages we 
want to be available for stable releases. For these, we'd also be ready 
to commit ourselves to their quality.

Thanks,


On 5/20/2024 10:33 AM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> On 2024-05-20 05:56, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
>> Does this stable release 7.0 capture the state of the third party 
>> packages?
>
> One possibility.  Let's think about this.. Two Parts
>
> Part One: We "fork" a package because of version difference between 
> Stable and Current..
>
>   [0] Copy the Package to be held back.  This will become a new 
> Package in the same GIT location.
>   [1] Change the Name of the package to be held back
> (e.g. 'IA-EN-Dictionary.pck.st' to 'IA-EN-Dictionary-pre7.0.pck.st')
>   [2] Manually change the package text so the the 'provides:' name 
> matches.
> (e.g. '!provides: 'IA-EN-Dictionary-pre7.0' 1 27!`)
>   [3] Change (or add) a '!requires:' for Cuis-Base to END before the 
> latest
> (e.g. `!requires: 'Cuis-Base' 60 5552 60 6000!`)
>   [4] Add this new Package in GIT at the place/directory it's sibling 
> lives.
>
> Part Two: We update Feature to add Feature>>require:maxBase:
>
>   The new method allows us to just specify the max/end-cap base release
>   so that we don't have to manually update the transitive requirements.
> (e.g. `Feature require: 'IA-EN-Dictionary' maxBase: 7.0`)
>
> I am not wedded to the details here.  E.g. how to fork+mark a 'held 
> back' package.
>
> What I would like is [a] simple to explain and [b] simple to use.
>
> It would be nice to have the Installed Packages Browser do the mechanics.
>
> Options? Refinements?
>
> I'm sure you can think of something..
> -KenD


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