[Seaside] [ANN] Seaside 2.9 Alpha 2

[Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez]

Lukas Renggli wrote:
> Over a month has passed since the last release of Seaside 2.9. We are
> very pleased to announced Seaside 2.9 Alpha 2 as a next step towards
> the release of Seaside 2.9.
> 
> We've mainly worked on two things: (1) closing critical issues that
> have been collected in the bug tracker, and (2) making different
> configurations of Seaside a snap to load.
> 
> 
> 1. Closed Issues
> ================
> 
> - Issue 3: A RESTful configuration editor would be very useful
> - Issue 87: ColorValue>>hex fixes
> - Issue 126: review request handler documentation
> - Issue 165: consider WAPainter refactoring
> - Issue 193: do we really need #vmStatisticsReportString?
> - Issue 200: Seaside 2.9 project page on SqueakSource outdated
> - Issue 206: check weird #value call on block in WADebugErrorHandler
> - Issue 211: deprecate the scriptcaulous convenience methods on Canvas
> - Issue 216: RSS Changes demo produces invalid XML
> - Issue 218: WADispatcherEditor doing a #call: in #initialRequest:
> - Issue 219: Why does WADecorationTask override #updateStates: ?
> - Issue 227: #halt should always halt
> - Issue 228: Move the Swazoo server adapter over to WAServerAdaptor
> - Issue 234: Source code view is broken after painter refactoring
> - Issue 240: JSJsonTests are not portable
> - Issue 241: WANumberPrinter>>#digitsOf:base: uses a Float as an Array index
> - Issue 242: Using a niladic actionBlock with on:do: in not portable
> - Issue 245: WAHalo Source View is broken
> - Issue 246: Anchor callbacks should not accept blocks with one argument
> - Issue 249: WATree broken in example browser
> - Issue 250: JQuery Droppable does not seem to work right
> - Issue 251: Accepting code in the browser opens a deprecation warning in Pharo
> - Issue 254: Sourceview via halo does not seem to work
> - Issue 256: Setting the default entry point does not seem to work
> - Issue 258: Bad XHTML for versionuploader
> - Issue 259: Request modification to WAPlatformTest>>#testIsResumable
> 
> ... and uncounted enhancements to the core code and various other
> optional packages such as JQuery, JQuery-UI, Swazoo Server Adapters,
> etc. We've further improved portability to other Smalltalk dialects,
> in this round we mostly focused on VA Smalltalk.
> 
> 
> 2. The Seaside Builder
> ======================
> 
> We are proud to announce the Seaside Builder, the tool that makes it a
> snap to load a specific set of Seaside 2.9 packages into any recent
> Pharo or Squeak image:
> 
> 	http://builder.seaside.st
> 	
> The Seaside Builder lets you either select a predefined configuration
> of Seaside packages or manually choose the packages you need. The
> builder automatically ensures that all prerequisites are selected and
> loaded in the right order. For the first time it is possible to
> conveniently choose between the MIT licensed Comanche or the LGPL
> licensed Swazoo web server.
> 
> At the bottom of the page there are two download options available:
> "Load Script" creates a change-set that can be dragged onto any image
> causing it to load the selected Seaside packages. There is also the
> possibility to download a "Monticello Configuration" of the selected
> packages. In the future more download options might become available.
> 
> 
> 3. Things to be aware of
> ========================
> 
> First of all, it is important to remember that this is an Alpha
> release and therefore might not be suited to be used in production. We
> are however rapidly approaching the beta phase and disruptive changes
> are unlikely. Some of the core team members are already using Seaside
> 2.9 in production.
> 
> You'll find a list of current migration issues at
> http://seaside.st/documentation/migration/28to29.
> 
> 
> 4. When things go wrong
> =======================
> 
> If you run into problems or encounter problems, please let us know
> using the issue tracker at
> http://code.google.com/p/seaside/issues/list or through the mailing
> list. We are especially interested into feedback concerning "The
> Seaside Builder".
> 
Congratulations, thanks for the hard work. We really appreciate it.

Miguel Cobá