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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