FreeBSD Port: smalltalk-3.0.5
perryh at pluto.rain.com
perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sun Jul 19 22:13:50 UTC 2009
Johan van Selst <johans at stack.nl> wrote:
> ... versions 3.0.5 and 3.1 were both released on the very same
> day: 3.0.5 is not older than 3.1. The former was a stable bugfix
> release and 3.1 came with serveral new features (and unfortunately
> no perfect backwards compatibility for running older programs) ...
>
> Right now, many programs will work with either version, and
> some even require the new 3.1 features ... I'll look in to
> these issues and will probably switch the port to 3.1(.x) soon.
Given the backwards compatibility issues, might it be worthwhile
to create a new smalltalk31 or smalltalk-devel port, or rename
the current port to something like smalltalk30x, so that the
older version can remain available for use with older programs?
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