What's new in Squeak 3.9
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The document provides an overview of the Squeak open-source project, including its organization, website, tools, and major projects. The SqueakFoundation oversees the project with a 7-member board. Version 3.9 of Squeak was recently released with improvements like pragmas, traits, and a new look. Important tools include the closure compiler, Monticello, and SqueakSource. Major active projects built on Squeak include Tweak, Croquet, Seaside, and Sophie. The community is encouraged to participate and help develop Squeak further.
What's new in Squeak 3.9
- 1. News from Squeak www.squeak.org Marcus Denker and Stéphane Ducasse
- 2. Topics Info Only a small overview But can also do demoes after :)
- 3. Organization SqueakFoundation 7 elected board members Tim, Marcus, Cees, Bert, Yoshiki, Craig, one missing Promotion of Squeak Support communication between subgroups
- 4. New web site http://www.squeak.org/ Community maintained new web site
- 5. Team Structure You can participate! Join a team and have fun You can help developing Squeak, just ask and be credible
- 6. Bug Tracking System How to publish bugs/enh http://bugs.impara.de Enter a description/tests/fix Send a mail to squeak-dev Comment on others bugs enh
- 7. License Squeak 1.1 has been released under APSL2.0 APSL2.0 is “open-source certified”
- 8. 3.9 Pragmas, traits Merged back 3.8 Squeakland + SmallLand changes New Look Optional closure compiler A ****lot**** of fixes FastSocketStream -> SocketStream
- 9. 3.9 (II) ToolBuilder (UI Abstraction) Services Change event notification mechanism Lot of new tests
- 11. Closure Compiler Use RB AST IR Nodes + Visitor optionally compiles closures (30% slower) Missing decompiler (SummerTalk Project)
- 12. Monticello Package for Squeak Diff/Merge Distant repositories 3.9, Tweak, Croquet, Seaside managed with MC
- 13. SqueakSource
- 14. www.SqueakSource.com SourceForge for Squeak Multiusers project repository Used for managing 3.9, pier, SqueakSource, Tweak,...
- 15. Omnibrowser Metagraph driven Browser Building brick for new browsers
- 16. Other tools SqueakMap (package catalog > 400) Shout, eCompletion, Refactoring browser New omni-based code browser New SUnit browser Christo: coverage browser
- 17. Important future tools Test server Release Builder Refactoring all the way
- 19. Tweak New user interface framework Event-based Used in Croquet and Sophie http://tweak.impara.de/ May be the future of Squeak
- 20. Sophie Open-source multimedia publication and run-time frameworks Flash + iMovie http://www.futureofthebook.org/ projects/ http://www.geeksrus.com/sophie/
- 22. Open-Croquet Immersible and collaborative system http://www.opencroquet.org version 1.0 is out
- 24. Seaside http://www.seaside.st/ Free seaside hosting Support for Ajax scriptaculous.seasidehosting.st/ http://seachart.seasidehosting.st/
- 26. Spoon Micro vm and image for Squeak www.netjam.org/spoon/
- 27. Other Projects... St-Exupery (JIT in Squeak) Chronos (time date library) Acagonga (Unit and Time library) Magma (OODBMS) Pier (seaside-based CMS) vwxWidgets (www.wxsqueak.org),
- 28. 3.10? Lot of talks, few actions
- 29. One possible vision for 3.10 More cleaning removing etoy Cleaning Morphs Use MC2 Shrink the image (Pavel 3 Mb Image) Integrate Sophie packages
- 30. Join and have fun http://www.squeak.org