[squeak-dev] Squeak 4.3 released

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 03:11:25 UTC 2011


Thanks and congratulations to all who worked on this release!

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Chris Cunnington <
smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3/Squeak4.3.zip
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>
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> Welcome to the release of Squeak 4.3.
>
> There aren’t any applications bundled with this release. Instead of
> working on applications to bundle with the image, core developers have been
> inspired by the Cog virtual machine to look deeply into the image for
> things they wanted to change. As a result, the image is becoming smaller,
> tidier, and nimbler.
>
> There are five Welcome Workspaces in Squeak 4.3. The second is called
> Future Directions:
>
> - This image is ~15M. If you execute - Smalltalk unloadAllKnownPackages -
> it will become ~10M
>
> - A SqueakCore image is available at http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3
>
> - A reasonable target is the creation of a smaller image, which may be a
> task before the community
>
> - A place to explore where to make reductions is likely the
> removal/replacement of GUIs
>
> - Once we have a smaller core image, we can employ Andreas Raab's memo [1]
> on how to load code back into the image. This will be based on tests
> delineating the separate responsibilities of core and application developers
>
>  [1]]
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-May/150658.html
>
>
> Happy Holidays Hacking,
>
> the Squeak Oversight Board
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>
>
>


-- 
Casey Ransberger
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