[squeak-dev] [ANN] Fuel Release Version 1.9

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Mar 30 18:44:25 UTC 2013


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 06:33:58PM +0100, Max Leske wrote:
> 
> On 29.03.2013, at 02:26, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:28:44PM +0100, Martin Dias wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> We are happy to announce Fuel 1.9.
> >> 
> >> Fuel is an open-source general-purpose object serialization
> >> framework developed in Pharo. You can find more information on our website
> >> [1].
> >> 
> >> The default set of packages of this version already comes in Pharo 2.0, so
> >> you it's not necessary to install it there. However, Fuel also works
> >> out-of-the-box in Pharo from 1.1 up to 2.0, as well as in Squeak 4.1 up to
> >> 4.4. You can see our documentation [2] for complete installation and use
> >> guides.
> > 
> > Fuel is a very nice piece of work and I appreciate the effort to support Squeak.
> > Good design, good implementation, good documentation, what's not to like :-)
> > 
> > One issue in loading from Metacello #stable, FLBenchmarks class>>generateMiniSerializationVersionsComparison has this:
> > 
> > 	Array with: 1 with: #1 with: '1'.
> > 
> > But for Squeak in needs to be:
> > 
> > 	Array with: 1 with: #'1' with: '1'.
> 
> Thanks Dave, fixed that one.
> 
> > 	
> > I can't run the tests in Squeak, but the Fuel package itself seems fine.
> > 
> 
> Why can't you run the tests? Does something not work as expected?
> 

I did not look too closely, but I think it's just Squeak/Pharo variations in
the tests themselves. For example 'SystemVersion current major' seems to be
a Pharo idiom.

Dave

> > For RemoteTask (in package CommandShell) I can do "RemoteTask useFuelSerializer"
> > and all works as expected, with cooperating images exchanging serialized objects
> > with Fuel.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> 


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