How to release?

To produce a new Release candidate

Add

#Pharo1.1rc1

in the update.list of the current beta version

Then add in the following changeset

SystemVersion newVersion: 'Pharo1.1rc1'.

To prepare a new version

Create a new folder on the server

                        
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                                ssh ducasse@scm.gforge.inria.fr
cd /home/groups/pharo/htdocs/updates/
mkdir pharo1.2

Add scripts upFile12

                        
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                                #!/bin/bash
scp "$1" ducasse@scm.gforge.inria.fr:/home/groups/pharo/htdocs/updates/pharo1.2/

                        
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                                #!/bin/bash
scp -p ducasse@scm.gforge.inria.fr:/home/groups/pharo/htdocs/updates/pharo1.2/updates.list .

Prepare script loader

                        
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                                ScriptLoader class>>toPharoOneDotTwo
        self currentMajorVersionNumber: 1.2

Here is an example of the script to ask to branch

                        
                            
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                                ScriptLoader>>updatexxx
        "self new updatexxx"
        self withUpdateLog: 'Switch to 1.2'.
        (self confirm: 'Do you wish to advance to Pharo 1.2 Unstable?
[Yes] Your system will be marked as Pharo1.2a (Unstable), and you will subsequently receive development updates for 1.2 (unstable stream).
[No] Your system will remain at Pharo 1.1.')
        ifTrue: [SystemVersion newVersion: 'Pharo1.2a'.
                        ScriptLoader toPharoOneDotTwo.
                        SystemVersion current date: '11 June 2010'.
                        self inform: 'You may now save this image and retrieve updates again for Pharo1.1-alpha and beyond.']
        ifFalse: [SystemVersion newVersion: 'Pharo1.1rc1'.].
        self flushCaches.
                            

                    

Should remove all the update and script methods

For the new version 1.2

- create a new updates.list file, with as

                        
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                                #Pharo1.2a
12000-Pha-Empty.cs

- Add an empty

12000-Pha-Empty.cs

Create a new version of ScriptLoader

The first new update stream item should be a new package ScriptLoaderXX containing the class ScriptLoaderXX where XX is the version number.

                        
                            
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                                12000-Pha-ScriptLoader12.cs

"Postscript:
Leave the line above, and replace the rest of this comment by a useful one.
Executable statements should follow this comment, and should
be separated by periods, with no exclamation points (!!).
Be sure to put any further comments in double-quotes, like this one."

|repository|
repository := MCHttpRepository
                location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Pharo/'
                user: ''
                password: ''.
(repository loadVersionFromFileNamed:'ScriptLoader12-MarcusDenker.1.mcz') load.
ScriptLoader new addRepositoryMCToAllPackages.
ScriptLoader new deletePackage: 'ScriptLoader11'.
                            

                    

To generate the log of the issues

http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/csv?can=1&q=&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Version+Platform+Owner+Summary+Milestone+Stars+Opened+Closed+Modified+BlockedOn+Blocking+Blocked+MergedInto+Reporter+Cc+Release&cells=tiles

and save it in CVS, then filter the dates to identify the closed issues.

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