We will see :)
let us make 1.2 another cool version. For now let us release 1.1
each step at the time.... 

Stef
On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Yanni Chiu wrote:

> Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
>> I am very excited about Cog, but also have to urge some caution: There was 
>> mention of Seaside not running on it, which is a show-stopper until fixed.
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant by fix major bugs. But given the level of excitement 
> and interest, I figured these would be fixed, long before a Pharo 1.2 would 
> be released.
> 
>>> Henrik Johansen wrote:
>> - Platform availability (64bit is not supported, iPhone/iPad VM's can't run 
>> them)
>> - Still buggy (I've reported 2 so far)
>> - No process established yet how / if  to synch with current VMMaker (which 
>> contains quite a lot of fixes not found in Cog)
>> - Plugin availability (f.ex. I tried building FT2Plugin using Cog structure 
>> on OSX, and failed miserably)
>> - No good reason to release a backwards-incompatible image by default, when 
>> Cog translates them by default, but not the other way around.
> 
> Yes, these are all very good points. The last point is the best, there's no 
> reason not to, since Cog can translate it.
> 
> I just have a feeling that dragging out a transition like this would be more 
> painful than a quick leap. I know that for me, as soon as Seaside runs on 
> MacOSX and Linux, I'd make the move. I'd probably hold back if it was only 
> 1.5 times speed-up, but likely 3 times or more, is hard to resist. It's not 
> easy to always know which VM you're running, so there's almost certainly 
> going to be image mis-matches, the longer the transition takes.
> 
> Now that I think about it, for me, I can simply change the two VM's I use. 
> It's just the image builders that need to pick up the right VM (if they 
> happen to use Cog day-to-day), and keep everything straight.
> 
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