New Slate release setup

[Brian T Rice]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Brian T Rice wrote:

> I've added http://slate.tunes.org/downloads/ to keep track of any files we
> publish for consumption/releases, and updated the home page links to them.
>
> This lets you see how fresh things are, such as the "slate-current"
> snapshots, but it's also lets us quickly add any special builds that
> people make (say, for BeOS or something) or contributed libraries
> available even if we don't have an obvious place in CVS or the front page
> for it (although demo/ could use some improvement :).
>
> Also, I'm seriously considering sub-point releases after 0.2, basically
> marking the end of each month with 0.2.1, 0.2.2, etc. to force testing and
> cycling of the different coding efforts.
>
> I want to encourage everyone to contribute, since we'll now have good
> debugging support (for people who don't want to bother with internals),
> and a means to test and recover from errors, which mean unit tests will
> make a nice way of showing the functionality contract of a library.
>
> Opinions?

I'll take it there's not much to add. At some point, I'll probably make
major-version directories to sort things out.

I definitely want to force us (mainly myself) to get releases out in short
intervals, since so much is changing and it's important to keep a
consistent system ready. I probably won't make a big deal of the sub-
releases on the front page.

However, I'll probably start announcing the major releases on a few
mailing lists and probably comp.lang.smalltalk now that the system
includes all the basic features advertised on the front page and is
reasonably usable and stable.

-- 
Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/