[Coco] looking for latest toolshed location

[Tormod Volden]

Hi everybody,

The tarballs (tar.gz or zip) for NitrOS-9 and Toolshed that you find
on SourceForge correspond to their latest releases. Yes, 3.3.0 is the
latest stable release of NitrOS-9 and it is 5 years old. Toolshed 2.2
is the latest release. To get newer code you can pull from the
mercurial source repositories, or download the snapshot disks or zip
files. I regularly upload new "snapshot" disk images when something is
committed to the NitrOS-9 source repository. Going to www.nitros9.org
should be helpful to find what you want without having to navigate the
SourceForge project structure. SourceForge has a function to download
a snapshot source tarball too, but mercurial is better and saves your
bandwidth when you keep your local repo up to date with "hg pull" and
"hg update".

I have wanted to make newer stable releases (for some years now), but
finding enough time is the problem. And a stable release means that
things should be polished a bit, documented and systematically tested.
That said, all changes over the last 5 years are rather incremental
and small and shouldn't cause any regressions - I know lots of people
use the latest code without problems. The plan is to release toolshed
2.3 "soon", and then later a new NitrOS-9 release, to make the latest
release relevant again. Also, the availability of the "ease-of-use"
distribution maybe takes some of the pressure off the "official"
NitrOS-9 releases.

Best regards and happy hacking,
Tormod

> > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 08:08 Robert Gault wrote:
> > >> Gene and Walter,
> > >>
> > >> I just browsed the url below and it is active. New source
> > >> corrections were as recent as "6 days ago".
> > >>
> > >> In any case, the Web page lists the date for each
> > >> addition/correction so you can easily tell the state of Toolshed.