[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#710375: Bug#710375: Bug#710375: [Pkg-squeak-devel] Bug#710375: Fwd: RegEx and RePlugin (was: [Vm-dev] Re: [unix] RePlugin patch for pcre)

[Phil B]

Jonas,

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:15 AM Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> Quoting Phil B (2021-11-09 15:37:10)
>
<snip>

> I looked at the above ealier today, but was discouraged by the lack of
> tags since 12 years.
>

Please don't let that discourage you...


>
> Would be really helpful if from time to time the code was tagged.  Bonus
> points if tagged code was published as tarballs, but I can do that
> myself.  I cannot easily guess at which points in a version control
> system is sensible to make a snapshot for long-term use.
>

The short answer is the most recent commit to trunk should be considered
the latest stable at any given point in time.

I've confirmed with Dave that every commit to squeak-vm should be
considered stable at this point as it's essentially in maintenance mode.
Code changes tend to be small with the recent merge of the patches from the
Debian package likely being the most activity in well over a year.  Since
it's a legacy VM, we don't add major new functionality to it but rather
generally fix bugs and rarely (a small handful of times in the last decade)
will add a capability to keep Smalltalk source code compatible with the
modern VM when possible.  The biggest changes tend to be along the lines of
when a new OS/library version is released (i.e. something changed outside
of squeak-vm) and minor changes need to be made in the source code to keep
things running.


>
> > I also keep a "how to" page with instructions at
> > https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6354
>
> Thanks, that one is new to me.  I will try read that. :-)
>

Please let me know if you have any questions.


>
>
>  - Jonas
>
>
Thanks,
Phil

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