[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] OmniBrowser 2.0.3
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Sep 3 05:58:50 UTC 2009
Hi Colin -
Just a small note: It would be helpful if you could provide the SAR as a
separate download instead of only packaged up inside the zip. I was
trying to create a scripted install of OB and it turned out to be a pain
because it's zipped in addition to sar-ed ;-)
Thanks,
- Andreas
Colin Putney wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to announce a new release of OmniBrowser. It's been quite a
> while since the last official release, and that has force folks that
> want to run the current code base to download and install directly from
> the Monticello repositories used for development. There have been a lot
> of contributors, each pulling in different directions, and it's been
> difficult for the various Squeak distributions that use OmniBrowser to
> put together a coherent installation. I think moving to more formal
> release practices, with explicit version numbers, supported platforms,
> release testing and so on will make it a lot easier to install and use
> OmniBrowser without having to understand the ins and outs of the code
> base and development community.
>
> In putting together this release, I wanted to tighten up and repackage
> the existing functionality–b=new features can wait until 2.1. I've
> tried to find the best mix of framework flexibility, browser features,
> code quality and performance that I could. This has meant cutting some
> features, and probably will mean further simplification and streamlining
> in subsequent releases. It'll also mean pulling OmniBrowser "extensions"
> into the standard distribution as the become stable.
>
> This is the third release in the 2.0 series; the first two releases were
> "private" releases announced only on the omnibrowser-dev list, to gain
> feedback and flush out issues with the distribution format.
>
> Download it from:
> http://www.wiresong.ca/static/releases/OmniBrowser-2.0.3.zip
>
> Colin
>
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