On 30.09.2009, at 00:57, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de
wrote: Hi all,
I think it would be good to collect and point out some of your favorite new features that we should explicitly tell the others about to try.
For example, one thing that should help quite a bit with e.g. documenting is that you can copy-and-paste an object from Etoys into another application. E.g., I just got the halo on a script, pressed Cmd-C, switched to Mail, pressed Cmd-V, and got this:
[graphic omitted] Excellent. Can you group objects and copy them all at once?
It works for everything you can get a halo on. So if you put all in a Playfield or a book page etc. you can snapshot those.
So please tell us what you think is new and exciting!
How does one find out what is in Etoys?
Excellent question. I have no idea how to do that systematically. It's like a medieval castle remodeled again and again into a baroque palace with a thousand hidden rooms. I'm using Squeak for 10+ years now and still find things I didn't know existed. It's that deep.
It's somewhat easier to find out what changed in this release compared to the last one year ago, though it's spread all over the place. And not really massaged into easily digestable form. The closest may be
http://svn.squeakland.org/installers/NEWS
though it skimps on the detail. More detailed is this
http://etoys.laptop.org/src/NEWS
It also goes further back, to 2006, when we started on the OLPC version. It's excerpted from the full changelogs here
For stuff before 2006 I don't think we have detailed changelogs online, though those could (and probably should) be reconstructed.
For the big releases on Squeakland we try to do release notes that list the major improvements. This is last year's:
http://squeakland.org/download/releaseNotes.jsp
but I couldn't find the earlier ones. Would be good to have.
- Bert -