Stable 3.1beta for Unix

Bruce ONeel beoneel at bluewin.ch
Mon May 6 13:37:19 UTC 2002


Hi,

Thanks, I'm interested.  The files are on the ftp 
site at:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.1beta/linux-unix/

cheers

bruce

Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.fr> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> On the offchance that there's anybody out there who still cares about
> my VM, I've put an updated 3.1beta in the usual place (source and
> binaries):
> 
>   http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak
> 
> Since 3.1beta-4478pre1:
> 
>   - much tidying up of the X code, with lots of small annoyances (and
>     one serious synchronisation problem that was causing "delays" in
>     mouse events) fixed
> 
>   - mouse wheel works again (wheel scrolls selection, wheel+ctrl scrolls
>     the pane)
> 
>   - buttons are where they should be (with a new option `-swapbtn'
>     which exchanges yellow and blue -- sometimes preferable on
>     two-button mice)
> 
>   - modifier mappings are saner (on Apple keyboards they should now be
>     identical to MacOS; for non-Apple keyboards there's a switch
>     `-swapmod' to make life easier in some cases)
> 
>   - delete is not mapped to backspace (it hasn't been for a while,
>     so that recent thread perplexed me a little... but in any case,
>     there's now an option `-mapdelbs' to turn it on)
> 
>   - additions to man page for new options / env vars
> 
>   - thorough overhaul of asynchronous i/o and socket code (which
>     appears to be way more robust than it's ever been: *many* thanks
>     to John Mc for providing me with his SUnit tests and helping to
>     hammer on sockets in all manner of cruel and unusual ways, and
>     to Goran Hultgren for insisting in the first place)
> 
> Precompiled binaries are available for:
> 
>     powerpc-netbsd
>     powerpc-linux-gnu
>     intel-linux-gnu
>     sparc-solaris
> 
> If anyone still cares about alpha-osf1, let me know.
> 
> The Linux VMs have OSS sound by default.  To get NAS support either
> recompile from source or send me mail telling me which platform.
> 
> As usual, if you have problems, please let me know via email (or send
> to the list, but _please_ `cc:' a copy to me too so I don't miss it).
> 
> Some of the sqXWin work required significant changes to the old-style
> input code.  I've tested it for a few hours with a couple of pre-event
> images (2.7 and 2.8), but there might still be surprises lurking.
> 
> 3.2g/3.3a in a day or two (after some sleep ;).  Maybe even VMMaker...
> 
> Ian



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