Hi--

Alrighty then... I just released Flow 2 alpha 1, a streaming framework for Squeak. It provides a handy interface for manipulating external resources of various stripes, and for writing services that use them (e.g., "clients and servers"). Please see http://netjam.org/flow for details.

This release features:

- greatly simplified installation

Download a ZIP file and file-in the sole file within. After installation you're ready to go; you don't need to build a new VM or even restart your running Squeak. I've only tested this with the Squeak 3.2 final snapshot. For the next release, I'll test with subsequent updates loaded.

- socket support (not new but worth mentioning :)

- filesystem support

- partial serial and parallel port support

- the basic framework for other planned transports (MIDI, digital audio, IEEE 1394 ["FireWire"], IR)

I've tested on GNU/Linux, Windows 98SE, and WinCE. If you'd like to help test on other platforms, please let me know! MacOS X should be particularly straightforward, since it's allegedly FreeBSD underneath (I don't have access to a Mac). There's a Flow mailing list; details are at the website.

thanks!

-C

p.s.

As I recall, there used to be a "Squeak announcements" list. It doesn't seem to be around anymore. Is it?

-- Craig Latta improvisational musical informaticist craig@netjam.org www.netjam.org/resume Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]