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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