Squeak 3.7 released!
Bruce ONeel
edoneel at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Sep 16 15:46:59 UTC 2004
Yep!
cheers
bruce
Brad Fuller <Brad at Sonaural.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:08:01 -0700
> From: Brad Fuller <Brad at Sonaural.com>
> Subject: Re: Squeak 3.7 released!
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
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> When the new Windows VM becomes available, will it be added to the ZIP
> file?
>
> Doug Way wrote:
>
> >
> > Squeak 3.7 is released! It was a bit of a long time coming, but it is
> > now available for download at http://squeak.org. Thanks to everyone
> > who contributed in one way or another.
> >
> > PR announcements will be going out to various public places soon.
> >
> > Here's a summary of the major new features in 3.7, copied from the
> > "What's New" section in the Welcome Window:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > * Version 2 of SqueakMap, a major upgrade which supports multiple
> > releases for packages, user accounts and much more.
> > * Babel, a framework for supporting language translations in the
> > UI. (e.g. French, Swedish, etc.)
> > * SmaCC, the Smalltalk Compiler Compiler deployment runtime from
> > John Brant. The SmaCC development tool lets you define a
> > parser/compiler.
> > * Some packages removed and placed on SqueakMap, including the XML
> > parser and IRC.
> > * The Accufonts bitmap font set. This means the original Apple
> > NewYork font has been removed, to help clean up the Squeak-L licensing
> > issue regarding fonts.
> > * BitstreamVeraFonts, a set of free TrueType/antialiased fonts.
> > * Chronology package. This contains ANSI DateTime, refactored Date
> > and Time classes.
> > * The remaining ANSI compatibility methods. Squeak now includes
> > all of the major ANSI compatibility changes.
> > * A Change Notification framework from the KCP team at Berne.
> > This sends consistent notification messages when code changes happen
> > in the system.
> > * Latest updates from the SqueakLand/Etoys world.
> > * An enhanced look and feel including menu icons, gradient
> > scrollbars and window titlebar buttons, etc.
> > * Horizontal scrollbars now supported in all scrollable text/list
> > panes, and very large lists are now supported with LargeLists.
> > * Class comments immediately visible in Browsers when a new class
> > is viewed.
> > * Enhancement packages incorporated from SqueakMap: NamedProcess,
> > ShrinkingSelection/ParenBlinking, BreakpointSupport, LargeLists.
> > * Support for animated GIFs and saving PNG files.
> > * Support for compressed source files.
> > * New class Matrix which replaces Array2D.
> > * The usual numerous small enhancements and fixes.
> >
> >
> > - Doug
> >
> >
> >
> >
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