On 5/14/10, Chris Muller <cmm at 4dst.com> wrote:
> 4.1 was one of those great Squeak releases where there were
> significant infrastructural improvements.  I would like 4.2 to push
> even further toward the dream of a free, industrial-grade Smalltalk
> engine.  A Smalltalk in which the tools a Smalltalk developer expects
> to work, work, and work well.  But we still have a gap to fill:
>
>   - Refactoring

May be ready soon to be ticked off....

Colin Putney published a configuration which loads the OmniBrowser
with Refactoring into Squeak4.1 trunk. He asks us to try it out.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150710.html

The configuration file which loads it is in the Inbox
http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Configurations-cwp.1.mcz

I loaded it out today - user level testing is needed now
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150722.html
(Contains the very short load information)

--Hannes

>   - Profiling
>   - Efficient finalization and weak-collections
>
> As great as 4.1 is, none of these tools are acceptably usable in 4.1,
> but I have hope for them for 4.2.  There has been some recent
> discussion around wrapping some ToolBuilder views around the RB
> engine.  Andreas _seemed_ to indicate the profiling issue is not
> seriously difficult to fix and, finally, I have been working with Igor
> on his finalization and weak-collection fixes that I will report on
> soon.