[squeak-dev] The new release is hot

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Sun Dec 29 21:09:57 UTC 2013


Awesome! My next question was going to be, "other than the stuff I'm
following, what else did y'all do this time?"


On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 29 December 2013 17:53, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Casey.  Just a reminder suggestion that we have this page:
> >
> >        http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6189
> >
> > which we can use to document and coordinate (and link to other pages
> > if it gets too big).
>
> It's still premature, but I created http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6192
> for 4.6, with the idea that if we decide to move anything out of the
> above page (in other words defer any work to 4.6), we have a place to
> put the todo items.
>
> frank
>
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Casey Ransberger
> > <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Forgive my wasting a bit of bandwidth here. I just wanted to say that
> I'm very pleased with the discussion I've seen around the new release, and
> the efforts that have gone into it.
> >>
> >> I'm really glad that folks decided to embrace Environments. I do look
> forward to naming my classes whatever I want and not worrying about global
> namespace collisions. This is one of the biggest complaints I've seen
> pitching Squeak in corporate environments. I'd actually like to use this
> system at work, so that's a big deal to me.
> >>
> >> I'm also really pleased with the effort around disentangling all of the
> circular dependencies. Squeak has needed this for a long time.
> >>
> >> So basically: thanks everyone, this is fantastic work, and the future
> is a little brighter than it was before.
> >>
> >> Also: is there anything that I can do to help out with the upcoming
> release? Figured I'd see about giving something back to folks who read all
> the way to the bottom of this post. Do we have release notes yet?
> Etcetera...
> >>
> >> --Casey
> >
>
>
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