btc wrote: >OMG! I only just noticed on the "RELEASE" page [1] the linked file >"Pharo2.0-win.zip" [3] >has a last-modified-date of 2013-11-13. What crack >[2] are you smoking? A "released" >file with a name like "Pharo2.0-win.zip" >should NEVER change its contents. NEVER! It >SHOULD always remain the same - >always - to the end of time! Backports are really >important but they should >be labelled as a new version "release" or just as "latest" if >regularly >uploaded from the CI.
No. Releases on the website are for humans, not for automation. They should work and have all the latest backported bugfixes. Fixed versions for automation and sysadmins have build numbers. We have this covered with files.pharo.org Please read Van den Hamer & Lepoeter (1996) Managing Design Data: The Five Dimensions of CAD Frameworks, Configuration Management, and Product Data Management, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 84, No 1, January 1996