[Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started!

2019-01-22 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi, As you know, after releasing a version of Pharo, a new cycle of development starts. There is no perfect release, and with Pharo we play an infinite game (see Marcus talk at ESUG). So, now Pharo 7.0 has entered maintenance mode and Pharo 8.0 is the new development branch. That means:

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-30 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list wrote > I’m on holidays until 7/01 :P Esteban, thank you for all your incredible work on all these simultaneous big, hard problems! Now stop sending mails and go enjoy your holiday ;-) - Cheers, Sean -- Sent from:

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-30 Thread Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- > On 27 Dec 2018, at 21:13, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > > and > > 11. There is no https://get.pharo.org/80 yet … Because there is no release! As I said before, most of yours concerns are because I failed to explain correctly the purpose of a Pharo 8.0 branch opening.

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-30 Thread Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- Hi Torsten, I think most of your concerns are due a miss-explanation about what it means opening P8 branch. It does not means we are releasing P7 or stopping to work on it. It means people can now do pull requests that would not be accepted for Pharo 7.0 in a different

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Torsten Bergmann
and 11. There is no https://get.pharo.org/80 yet ... Bye T.

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Torsten Bergmann
Hi Esteban, you know I'm neither shy on contributing nor doing any work for Pharo but personally I think we open Pharo 8 too early and should better focus our efforts more on finalizing P7 (see below) instead of opening the next construction site. Things were already shaky and sometimes

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Esteban, On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 15:52, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > Hi Alistair, > > I’m waiting to fix some issues in current VM build (new freetype lib, ensure > Athens will work on 64bit windows) and I was going to declare that “final vm > for Pharo7”. > Then this final VM for P7 will be

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi Alistair, I’m waiting to fix some issues in current VM build (new freetype lib, ensure Athens will work on 64bit windows) and I was going to declare that “final vm for Pharo7”. Then this final VM for P7 will be the first for P8 :) Esteban > On 27 Dec 2018, at 15:11, Alistair Grant

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Alistair Grant
Hi Esteban, Can I get in an early request for a new VM for Pharo 8? Since the normal process is to ensure the VM is at least 2 weeks old it doesn't require any action now, and of course it can wait until Pharo 7 is released. - Linux 64 bit:

[Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 8.0 development started

2018-12-27 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hello all, We are preparing to release Pharo 7.0 (which will be in January, as soon as we finish some last details). And in the meantime impatient people has asked (and obtained) the aperture of Pharo 8.0 development! :) So you now can start making Pull Requests against Pharo8.0 branch :)