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<div><br></div><div>There are been a minor hold-up bc. of the graphics backends in OSVM for the macOS platform.</div><div><br></div><div>On the one hand, there are some smaller tweaks needed for high-resolution displays.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the "-core-graphics" backend is not working in recent macOS 10, 11, or 12. And the "-metal" backend (current default) is limiting performance in a normal Morphic image to 60 fps/Hz, which causes stuttering when interfering with GC pauses and/or other Squeak processes (e.g., WeakArray finalizer). You can verify this by enabling #higherPerformance, which reduces the extra delay in the Morphic UI process to almost nothing. The FrameRateMorph should then show something like 200 FPS but only does 60.</div><div><br></div><div>Working on this now.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 14.03.2022 17:01:41 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;text-align: left" dir="ltr">
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<div><br></div><div>Let me give you a brief update on the Squeak 6.0 release plan. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>During the last 8 weeks, I worked on Squeak's localization capabilities, which includes loading and displaying TrueType fonts, modeling Locale and language information, as well as finding a way to not have to deal with line breaks in dialog/ui texts, which would be challenging for natural-language translators (both kinds, persons and machines^^).</div><div><br></div><div>All that works now in a good-enough fashion. Yay. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I will now look at the workflow to update our translation files (i.e., the "locale" folder in all bundles). Then I will report back and ask for volunteers. :-D</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style: solid;border-width: 1px;margin-top: 20px;margin-left: 0px;padding-left: 10px;min-width: 500px">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 18.01.2022 16:56:00 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div id="__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;text-align: left" dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Hi all --</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">I suppose that many readers have noticed by now that we are currently preparing the next Squeak release. A few weeks ago, I volunteered for being the next release manager. Until now, I have been rather reluctant to make any concrete remarks on when the release will happen. Let me use the following lines to give you a brief update.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">The OpenSmalltalk VM looks good. We have our second release candidate and will hopefully make a third one soon. Our daily Trunk bundles include that OSVM RC2 already:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- http://files.squeak.org/trunk/</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/tag/202112201228</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2022-January/037533.html</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">The Trunk image is doing well. Maybe we can do our traditional "Feature Freeze" in the beginning of February. Before proposing a concrete schedule, I want to finish assessing a few higher-effort things including:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Objectland (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2019-October/204437.html)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Localization (English, German, French, ...)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Jaromir's latest efforts around process scheduling</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Eric's latest efforts around GIFReadWriter</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Current state of ClipboardExtendedPlugin</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Current state of IPv6</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Other than that, I plan for announcing the upcoming "Feature Freeze" about 2 weeks in advance. Then we enter our beta-testing phase, in which I will make our latest "60Deprecated" package opt-in instead of opt-out (using the preference wizard). Then, about 1-2 weeks later if all goes well, I will update the .sources file of our final release candidate to SqueakV60.sources, package the release and open the Trunk for features again. :-) Next Trunk version will be 6.1alpha (using 61Deprecated for new deprecations).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Let us all work together to make Squeak 6.0 being worth its increased major version number:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Report issues</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Fix failing tests</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">- Make you favorite projects compatible</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Thanks! :-) Happy squeaking!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">Marcel</span></div><div class="mb_sig"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>